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You know what?  There are plenty of veterans who agree with me.  The Founders were very clear about the need to avoid military entanglements. Perhaps you should check out Lt Col Harry Summers, he was a decorated Vietnam war veteran.  He also wrote a classic military text...

Indeed.  Neither was I.  My quotes and discussion were about patriotism.  You seem to think it should be followed without question.  I don't. Given the fact that you probably misunderstood my point, would you like to have another run at it? What in the...

More interesting quotes Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is...

If we had listened to such "leftists", we would have avoided Vietnam altogether. Blind patriotism is exactly what a dictator wants - an army of robots that will go to war whenever, wherever he tells them to. But it's not what the Founding Fathers had in mind. In fact, one of the...

Not if you go by the record of US democritization in Kuwait. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8287-2003Feb26.html Hopes for Democracy a Mirage in Kuwait   By Susan B. Glasser Washington Post Foreign Service Thursday, February 27, 2003; Page A01 KUWAIT CITY...

The report has been substantiated (i.e., WND didn't make it up). The actual events (the allegations of the military parents) have *not* been substantiated yet. This is similar to what I used to hear from ROTC students in college, who felt like they were being picked on during history...

Only because we're playing favorites, and have decided not to focus on Israel.

Because US involvement has nothing to do with Saddam, humanitarian relief, or curtailing WMD.  The transparent unbelievability of those justifications is what makes people keep looking and focusing on other things.  I'm comparing this to the 1st Gulf War - sure...

Until this is substantiated by something other than "WorldNetDaily", I'm going to dismiss it. That rag has very low journalistic integrity.

Aurelius said: There are so many errors here, it's hard to know where to start. The facts are that the Jews forced the Arabs out at gunpoint, and took possession of large tracts of land, houses, etc.  The Arabs were *not* encouraged to leave; in fact, the ones who left were mostly...

Yes, you're correct about this one.  I was using the Greek as the starting point of the name, instead of the Hebrew.  I assumed that there was some connection between the Five Cities of the Philistines (called the Pentapolis in Greek) and the name that the Greeks used for these...

You have the names and addresses of individual Jewish families who have lived in that area continuously for 5700 years?  Fine; produce them. I'd like to contact them to verify your story. But before you go to all that trouble, you might want to check your biblical history and...

Whether the Philistines were Arabic is not really relevant.  Many groups of people who are Arabic today did not start out that way.  Berbers, for example, started out as tribal animists (worshipping nature).  Which wouldn't prevent them from being of the same ethnicity. The...

They were part of a larger country.  Besides, at that point in history, there was no concept of "nation".  People identified themselves by family, by religion, or by the city they were from.  How did you determine that the Jews owned the land?  Other than...

A peer is also someone who has similar experiences. If you were on trial, and the jury was composed of 12 CEOs of Fortune500 organizations, would you really claim that they were your "peers"? Or perhaps my example only reinforces your point, about economic bias vs. racial bias..?

It seems to me that if Bush was worried about appearing imperialistic....well, you can finish the sentence yourself.  :rolleyes:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2003-02-25-court-race_x.htm High court backs death row inmate Joan Biskupic, USA TODAY WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday revived a Texas death row prisoner's claim that prosecutors systematically excluded blacks from his jury. In an 8-1...

No, we dont have "many allies". The vast majority of the world is against us. Of the few that are with us, the vast majority of *those* countries have been bought off with trade agreements, loan guarantees, or other such bribes. As an exercise, take the (very short) list of everyone who...

A *trade* deficit? Not much. Trade deficits (as measured by the value of goods and services imported vs. exported) is also impacted by the strength of the dollar against other major currencies. Now a budget deficit - that's different. That causes govt borrowing, which raises the cost of...