I do not doubt your knowledge on u.s.a. since you were a war veteran of the vietnam era. I am a novice on vietnam.
With israel, they are not trying to kill everybody, that is just wrong and you know it. The jews have 20% of their citizens are not jews. They are muslims. Name me one muslim country that can say that?. Secondly, there is a huge debate about settlements. There are some who say, keep them as is, get rid of them , put more of them. Thats an honest debate. But to say israel, is around trying to kill everyone is dishonest. Israel gave back tons of land to egypt for peace, israel has given back land to the palestinians, in the form of 80% of settlements in hebron are gone, gaza has been given back, and arafat had been given the offer of 95% of the west bank. Now, while some jews in israel dont want peace, they are not the majority, they are a minority, in the palestinian terroritories, the palestinains encourage violence and hatred of the jews and america. Again, i wanna be clear, criticism is fine, but it has to go both ways. You cant have politically correct criticism, where i cant criticism islam or muslims, but everyone can criticism christians and israel.
One more thing, if israel really wanted to expand, they would take over lebanon, jordan, and syria. Syria is probably the weakest country. Lebanon the 2nd weakest. Who would stop those so called evil expansionist lol (no i didnt say you said that).
The israelies, have the right and moral obligations for all their people, jews, christians, muslims alike to make whatever borders are neccesary for survival. Can their debate and discussion on what those final borders should be, or course!. But lets not let europe's history of expansion off the hook, and lets not let the bloody muslim history of expansion off the hook either ok?
Originally Posted by actsnoblemartin
Israel is trying to define its own borders.
I agree with you, but i dont think the u.s.a. is a bully, nieve sure .
Isreal is carrying out a holocaust and will not define it's borders. Isreal is in the expansion mode. They intend to kill and drive off anybody in their way.
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You would do well to watch this:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...+promised+land
You do not believe the US is a bully. Iraq!! IRAQ!!! IRAQ!!!!!
Also, having been a naval officer in the Viet Nam area, I am familiar with our policies of that time, I understand they have not changed. At that time our adversary was the Soviet Union. When our ships encounter an adversary, we take a bold provocative stance, such as playing chicken and cutting accross their bow.
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Rather than petty arguing about liberals and conservatives, we should be working together to put our country back on track to becoming a shining example of a great Democratic Republic and a leader in Peace and Prosperity. The United States should be a leader by example, not by being the Global Bully.