[fabsroman]

I think I have posted about this before, but here goes again. Personally, I think we should leave Israel to itself, along with a lot of other countries. However, I am sure that Jews in this country control a lot of the economy and have a decent pull on politics, so the politicians have to make them happy. However, what really bugs the hell out of me is the liberal jews that think we should not be over in Iraq and Afghanistan and who do not want us to go to war. HELLO, if we didn't support Israel 50+ years ago, the muslims wouldn't have a deep hatred for us and 9/11 never would have occurred. What has developed in the Middle East has developed over decades, not just recently. Honestly, I cannot understand why the muslim nations haven't united and just gotten rid of Israel.

Now, as far as our current foreign policy is concerned, I think we are trying to back away from Israel and we have asked Israel to pull out of the West Bank and/or Gaza. Of course, they pulled out but now they are back in for military reasons.

Anyway, I think we should just nuke the entire Middle East, but that just isn't a possibility because of our reliance on oil and the fact that the world in general would be really pissed off at us. We should all be driving flex fuel vehicles and take a hands off policy regarding the Middle East, including Israel. If they want to fight to the death, so be it, but don't drag us into this crap. Our problem is that we haven't fought a straight up war since World War II where we knew exactly who the enemy was. We keep fighting in wars like Korea, Vietnam, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq to liberate the people from their current government. Problem with that is that we do not know which "people" support us and which do not. So the bullets can come from anywhere. In World War II it was pretty simple, just destroy everything the Germans, Japs, and Italians had, period. We even bombed entire cities without much thought about civilian casualty. Now, we worry about killing a single civilian.

Too much politics in war.