[fabsroman]

Skinny,

Did you actually read all the articles. The one I read said that neither side is to blame for this decades old war, so how can we sit here and say go "Israel".

According to the article I read, we sided with Israel and were indifferent to its settlement advances in the 80's because the Russians had sided with the Arabs and we HAD to oppose anything that Russia was for. Kind of like opposing communism in Vietnam. See where that got us. I have no idea what the war in Korea was for, but something tells me we were opposing communism there too. See where that got us. So, we sided with one country who was neither right nor wrong, and now were are pissed at the muslim countries for hating us when they have every right to do so. Keep an open mind with me here. If the roles were reversed, and Mexico actually had some back bone and strength, and they were backed by the gazillions of dollars that the muslim countries have, and they rolled into Texas, New Mexico, and California and took them all back with bloodshed, I seriously doubt you and I would be applauding the muslim states for helping Mexico out.

Simply put, I would like to see peace in the Middle East, and if that means letting these idiots continue to fight until there is one clear winner, so be it. Let's just get the hell out of there and let them finish it up. I was all for the war on terror initially, but this war on terror is getting a little out of hand. Instead of targeting terror cells, we are targeting entire countries and governments. What makes us think that we can take over these countries, install puppet governments, and everything will be okay. If we want to take them over, lets take them over and make them a state. Oh, but that would piss of the rest of the world.

Billy,

Just as you have family in Israel, I am sure that plenty of US citizens also have family in the muslim states.

As far as the comment regarding the Jews and their ability to fight, lets not forget that the Arabs have been fighting just as long and just as hard. They were able to beat back the Crusaders, but then again, those weren't Jews.

I don't have anything against Jews or Muslims, I just want us to get out of the Middle East, become self sufficient in regards to oil, and let those guys go at it. What do we need out of the Middle East other than oil? Do we have a sand shortage that I do not know about? Does Israel have something to offer us that we actually need? Is this going to be another Vietnam or Korea just because we have to support Israel?

I am not against war, and wars need to be fought, and since the war on terrorism there hasn't been any terrorist attacks, but at the end of all this we will be trying to hold all the muslim countries accountable for terrorism and God help us if China gets involved or they get more pissed off at us for our actions in the Middle East. They were pissed initially over the oil issue. Sometimes, wars are started not for land, but for economic resources, and we have a lot of black gold in the Middle East and China needs a lot of it, as do we.