I don't really have anything specific to add to this thread, so I'll just throw some current event stuff in here.
Hamas and Fatah hate each other. A power struggle would seriously help Israel's position. At this point, I'm about ready for Israel to just conquer the west bank and leave Gaza for the "Palestinians". They can keep their sections of Jordan and north Egypt and use it as a land bridge.
al-Qaeda says the Americans should be negotiating with them. These Islamic gangs are actually very responsible about letting you know when they are feeling the pressure.
The entire muslim world has been paying attention to Iraq and Lebanon. They've learned to fight "guerilla" wars, and to plan for a guerilla war. We will never again see uniformed combat soldiers unless the entire Geneva Convention treaty is nullified. There is no penalty for using non-uniformed combatants, making that the best method to conduct combat operations against "western" nations.
We should have secured the borders in Iraq. We should have pulled troops out of Japan and Korea and NATO to do it. We didn't. That is said and done, and I'm interested in the present and the future. We need to get the f*ck out of Iraq. We've got brave women and men dying over there, for the sole reason of keeping oil under $90 per barrel. I want us off oil, and if the stock market drops 5000 points to do it, that is completely acceptable to me.
I'm disgusted with both the Republicans and Democrats. I'm disgusted with our $50 trillion debt, the utter lack of physical security and the ability to deny entry on our southern border, I'm disgusted with our education system (especially in the high density cities), I'm disgusted with California's $20+ billion deficit spending every year, I'm disgusted with Diebold and ES&S and our entire system of voting records (i.e. the lack of voting records).
All of this is directly related to the middle east and jihad against the kufir. I'd like to stop paying the oil jizyah and funding jihad, and it's our entire economy and congress that has to be changed.
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