But ustwo, how in the world do you propose we actually win a war against radical islam? We can't even change the mind of creationists in America. Is your hope to just subdue the Middle East while we can, take the oil and run? You said
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So we can stick our thumbs up our ass, ignore the signs of the future (such as the reaction to a editoral cartoon), and pretend nothing bad is going to happen, or we strike now when we have all the advantages.
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I just don't get it. In my mind, the Middle East is a lost cause. Call me callous, but as long as they're idea of a "good idea" when it comes to government involves anything that remotely looks like a theocracy, there is no point in pretending our cultures will ever get along.
I always thought the only way to win the endgame when it came to oil was getting off oil in the first place. I realize there is no miracle panacea that we can pull out of our ass and be oil-free by Thanksgiving, but it does not seem like the U.S. government is really giving an honest effort to weaning us off oil before it is
absolutely necessary to do so. It has to be possible. If we can pull an atomic bomb out of our ass in the 40s, we're inventive enough to prop up some serious alternative energy solutions.
Continuing to play fire with religious zealots is not going to do anybody any good, no matter what side of the political spectrum you find yourself. This uproar over the cartoons is just laughably pathetic.
I had some other stuff to say but I decided I was just reeling off into a digression about backwards religious states...