tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post635708747383443731..comments2023-09-15T08:07:28.542-06:00Comments on Western Hero: Can We Learn to let it Burn?Silverfiddlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-21489279102007396212011-02-04T15:46:18.070-07:002011-02-04T15:46:18.070-07:00JMJ, you are right, but one can only hope.JMJ, you are right, but one can only hope.Trekkie4Everhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03226981394122557804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-77665483161916113812011-02-04T05:29:31.083-07:002011-02-04T05:29:31.083-07:00Exactly, MK. Our touchy-feely approach just incre...Exactly, MK. Our touchy-feely approach just increases their disdain for us.Silverfiddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-34311998832215741332011-02-03T23:00:04.585-07:002011-02-03T23:00:04.585-07:00"We cannot make Middle Easterners love the US..."We cannot make Middle Easterners love the US and our western-style freedoms."<br /><br />Exactly, and besides all you need to do is make them understand your devastating lethality when provoked into war. That is the only language islam has ever understood over the centuries. You don't need love from them, you need respect, the kind of respect that comes with force.<br /><br />"But let's stop and ask what would happen if we abandon the Middle East. Maybe it will burn if we leave, slide into chaos, or rot in hell, who knows?"<br /><br />To be honest, no one really gives a rat's ass what's happens in the middle east, most out there are only concerned with the effects on us.<br /><br />It's like the people always saying no one was ever able to win in Afghanistan. What they don't realize is that there is no sensible reason to 'win' in Afghanistan, never was, never will be. It's like getting into a punch-up with the neighbors over a broken toilet, pointless and stupid.<br /><br />All the west and those who conquered that craphole wanted was to ensure it did not endanger their security.<br /><br />The same should apply to the middle east, the majority of those savages want the stoning, child-rape, sharia and all the other accompanying barbarity that comes with islam. Let them have it, but only until they start plotting to send it to us, then you must punish them severely.MathewKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14385674205383405783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-68171499045153271092011-02-02T16:13:48.533-07:002011-02-02T16:13:48.533-07:00Bastiat,
We made a deal with Israel and Egypt to ...Bastiat,<br /><br />We made a deal with Israel and Egypt to please stop trying to kill one another. As part of that deal, we give them both military aid. It's a good deal. It's not that much money as far as we're concerned and it's bought a lot of pease. I'll tell ya' this for a fact: it would have cost us far, far, far, far, far more if we ended up dragged into a serious conflagration between the two.<br /><br />I've been saying this for years - One of the reasons we don;'t need a massive military empire to secure our international interests - and face it guys, the future has arrived and we will never again be a closed, isloated society - is that we have MONEY. Money is a far greater tool for peace and stability than the military is, and we have one hellacious military. We could have bought off teh Republican Guard in Iraq and avoided thousands of casualities and saved trillions of dollars.<br /><br />As for cutting off all aid, it sounds almost malevolently cheap, and ideolistically tunnelvisioned.<br /><br />Leticia,<br /><br />Good luck with that. Tell the agro sector that they can't have their 75% immigrant workforce, tell the chicken producers and meat packers, tell the rich people all over the country with their cheap housekeepers and poolboys and lawn workers.<br /><br />It's all well and fine to try to shut down the border, but it will never work until we STOP HIRING THE WORKERS. Our borders are just too big. Theer are 2000 miles of border with Mexico, let alone the thousands and thousands by sea. You could never do it. It would nowhere near be worth the cost.<br /><br />JMJJersey McJoneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15426560061830038806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-72639748749862495342011-02-02T15:39:06.401-07:002011-02-02T15:39:06.401-07:00And....close our borders! Close our borders! Close...And....close our borders! Close our borders! Close our borders!<br /><br />Does that count, too?Trekkie4Everhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03226981394122557804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-13273332470351596582011-02-02T12:20:37.435-07:002011-02-02T12:20:37.435-07:00>Stop policing the world, stop policing the wor...>Stop policing the world, stop policing the world, stop policing the world!<br /><br />I would add: Stop giving other countries our money, stop giving other countries our money, stop giving other countries our money!<br /><br />Not one cent more.<br /><br />Ever.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-79654033608999167892011-02-02T12:17:51.471-07:002011-02-02T12:17:51.471-07:00I agree with Divine.
Besides, no educated observe...I agree with Divine.<br /><br />Besides, no educated observer of the Egyptian situation honestly believes the Egyptian military would allow Muslim extremists to take over the country. The military is utterly dependent on the two billion dollars a year we send them. They know that would be instantly cut off if radical theocrats took over Egypt. These silly, paranoid, sleazy rantings from some in the American Right that the Muslim Brotherhood may take over is just fodder for extremists - here and abroad. It is sleazy, dishonest, stupid, paranoid and counter-productive.<br /><br />JMJJersey McJoneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15426560061830038806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-65153429677278840092011-02-02T09:44:55.696-07:002011-02-02T09:44:55.696-07:00It's almost like our bloated government,years ...It's almost like our bloated government,years of special favors layers of bureaucracy ,nobody wants to give up anything or look politically bad. In other words nobody has the cahones to "just say no".Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02173702830006208833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-79063214483108966332011-02-02T07:39:38.922-07:002011-02-02T07:39:38.922-07:00Stop policing the world, stop policing the world, ...Stop policing the world, stop policing the world, stop policing the world!Divine Theatrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02553420826262806110noreply@blogger.com