you know Geoff, I think they idea was to try and make a decent country in the middle of the Arab world. Democratic, pluralistic, something that might be an example and bring them into the 21st century, human rights, rights for women, an independent judiciary, press. It was and is a noble effort. The problem is 20-20 hindsight is great. It can't work because tht Arabs are simply not capable of civil society. It's a clan and tribal culture and western thought and customs don't work. Their a bunch of lunatics, less a people that a death cult and not worth the fingernail clippings of a single American soldier, sailor, airman or marine. Not the Kuwati's who we went to war for, not the Bosnians, and not the Saudi's, who live under American protection. Last but not least. I know that in your feverish mind the elders in Jerusalem pull all the strings but the only soldiers that have died in defense of israel are Israeli's. Since 1948 we've lost men in Korea, Vietnam, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Afghanistan, Panama, and Grenada, and lebanon. All in defense of Asians and Moslems.
you know Geoff, I think they idea was to try and make a decent country in the middle of the Arab world. Democratic, pluralistic, something that might be an example and bring them into the 21st century, human rights, rights for women, an independent judiciary, press. It was and is a noble effort. The problem is 20-20 hindsight is great. It can't work because tht Arabs are simply not capable of civil society. It's a clan and tribal culture and western thought and customs don't work. Their a bunch of lunatics, less a people that a death cult and not worth the fingernail clippings of a single American soldier, sailor, airman or marine. Not the Kuwati's who we went to war for, not the Bosnians, and not the Saudi's, who live under American protection. Last but not least. I know that in your feverish mind the elders in Jerusalem pull all the strings but the only soldiers that have died in defense of israel are Israeli's. Since 1948 we've lost men in Korea, Vietnam, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Afghanistan, Panama, and Grenada, and lebanon. All in defense of Asians and Moslems.