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Date: 2/17/2009 10:10:06 AM
Author: swimmer
Date: 2/15/2009 7:00:57 AM
Author: strmrdr
Date: 2/14/2009 3:27:44 PM
Author: swimmer
Have to run, so will address Storm's other post later (as usual you show better insight than anyone Bushy was paying I must say).
thanks, today a friend of mines son is sitting with a 50cal rifle watching a trail that was used for Iranian terrorists to cross over into Iraq. The terrorists haven't made it far into Iraq alive since his unit reached the area.
The estimate is that better than 300 a day was using the trail before that
To the above I just ask, which of your children (born or unborn) will you sacrifice to fight this unending war?
It is not that easy, if someone was launching rockets towards my home and the government would not do anything about it I would gather up some good old boys and deal with the problem myself.
Some things are worth dieing for.
Its a long border, glad that your friend's son has a bit of it covered. I was a border patrol for years, long periods of boredom punctuated with moments of sheer terror and insanity was my general take on the situation. Good luck to him, it took years for me to relearn how to sleep deeply.
I like to think long term. Say I go put on my 'shit kickers' and bash my neighbor's face in to 'solve a problem.' What happens after that? How do you (and aforementioned good ole' boys) continue to live next to them? I think you might win a battle but lose the war. As a kibbutznik friend says all the time, its like the Palestinians and Jews were created by a terrible computer program that perfectly created opposite and yet similar purposes and characteristics designed to conflict with one another. I think most Israelis understand why they are pissed, we are pissed for the same reasons, but in order to break the cycle of violence, violence probably is not the answer.
Yes, I agree that there are things worth dying for, but on the flip side of this, you have to decide what is worth living for and devote all that you can to making that objective a reality.
Shout out to thing2!!!! thank you for always being excellent, supportive, and curious! Glad to be your friend.
I remember Rabin and Arafat shaking hands on the White House lawn in 1993.
What happened?
Ah yes, a few random suicide bombings and a lot of dead Israelis.
That's not the path to peace. The Palestinian leadership does not understand a "path to peace". PEACE is not their goal. Their goal is the annihilation of Israel. End of story.
There is no moral equivalency between Israel and the Palestinian thuggery (ie: their governing power). To work with that preposition is dangerous and deadly thinking.