Ballots, Bullets And Suicide Bombers

Americans are the most uninformed people in the world. We do not read anymore, except the Internet, we watch television that put out the same information and this information filtered. You can go to any third world nation and find the people to be more savvy about politics and how it affects their economic and social life than in our country.
Why do i say that the news is filtered? Check then this information by yourselves.
Check who owns or runs, Fox, The Wall Street Journal, NY Times, NY daily news, Washington Post, ABC, CBS, CNN, etc. If they were all Mexicans Americans advocating policies beneficial to Mexico and not US interests, I am sure most of you would be against that type of information control, and you should be!
You want to get diverse opinions to be able to intelligently make you own mind, read foreign press and newspapers. I wonder if my comments will be censored?

well said ClearThinking. we share some of the same views. honestly, as cliche as this may sound, "no pain, no gain." we should honestly drop massive bombs on gaza, tehran, damascus, and any other place and aids and abets terrorists and radical fundamentalists and really get a hold on the problem. these people are puppeteers using the innocent people living in refugee camps as shields and bait to fuel their quests of political success. if these people resort to tricking normal people into blowing themselves up amongst 50+ civilians to prove a point, f--- it!, drop a nuke, blow everyone up and then we have peace because the people who are weak enough to be manipulated will be gone and so will the the people devious enough to manipulate the innocent. in the end, we waste all this money and more human life just stringing it along and never really yielding a positive result, just prolonged war and terror. the worst thing is that these terror organizations have developed political parties to "legitimately" promote their campaign. they are the wolves dressed in sheep's clothing.

given that most of the people involved in these organizations, aside from the top leaders, are very poorly educated, there is one simple question they need to ask themselves(cause i really dont think they are asking the right question), how do we stop the bloodshed? by blowing up 100+ people and yourself? why not blow up the guy who is telling you to blow yourself up? then you alone could possibly be saving 100's of lives alone, being a saint rather than a martyr. id rather be a saint and alive than a martyr and be... these people lack logic and for that simple fact, i believe we should bomb the heck out of everyone. in my eyes, it truly is that simple. we'll blow them up and later say sorry to whoever asks and it was done for the greater good of the world, not just the middle east and we'll be done with it. life goes on. and so does death. so why dont we all just bask in the gift that is life, regardless of how yours is being lived. be lucky that you are able to live it.

also, to make a note on blowing all those people up, it really wouldnt be a bad idea. it wouldnt be genocide and it wouldnt create a possible extinction of the human race. we're spending billions a month trying to facilitate these idiots preaching idiocracy. why not spend $50 million worth of nuclear bombs and drop them on these uneducated war mongers holding onto the only thing they know how to do. getting nuclear bombs poured on them can be their new lesson. and while we're at it, lets drop a couple more on china to fix their population problem. they might thank us with a fruit basket instead of a nuclear casket ;-)

p.s the china thing was a joke. they make great toys that keep my kids entertained for hours.

if the Palestinians had accepted the plans for their own homeland, there would be no problem. However, Gaza is a great example of just what the Palestinians are all about. When the Israelis left Gaza, they left a wonderful infrastructure of a baseline economy for the Palestinians to take over. Israelis even threw in millions of dollars to help the Palestinians maintain and improve those businesses. What did the Palestinians do? Destroyed the businesses and then began to lob iranian missiles over to Israel all the while renewing their constant vow to wipe Israel off the map. So it's the same ol' same ol' trade peace and prosperity for death and violence. It's all about the choices they make. It's tiime to grow up and accept Israel, work intelligently and purposefully for a homeland ALONGSIDE Israel and tell their Muslim brothers who gleefully let the Palestinians die at the tip of their islamic spear to pack sand.

"Posted By: sanctuaryvb @ 01/06/2009 9:35:38 PM

You are not really very 'clear thinking' at all, what you a saying is might makes right and that we should ignore human suffering when there is something we can do about it. I simply cannot accept your premise."

Actually, you have no idea how much I sympathize and want this to end quickly without more innocent victims.
I am just saying that some people are blaming the wrong side for this. It seems to me that the IDF tried the tit for tat kinds of responses and that was not effective. What is left and how do you negotiate with a pathological liar, as is most of the radical leadership (from the president of Iran on down)?
How many American lives would you deem "acceptable" before a strong military response?
I do believe the timing of the attack was both political and logistical. The IDF knew Hamas was building up for increased attacks, but in reality, one suicide bomber in Tel Aviv kills more than a months of rocket attacks.

Face the facts. Israel stole the land and the native inhabitants are understandably angry. Until Israel compensates them for the stolen land and gives them the territory they need to have a viable state there will be no peace.

Shiite Iran now holds sway over not only its own territory but also wields enormous influence in Iraq,Syria and Lebanon.In the future,a nuclear capable iranian military will be able to send tank battalions and troops unhindered and unopposed right to the border of israel itself.Its fighters and bombers will fly from bases all across this wide region with no need to ask for airspace permission and they may very well be able to drive the Jewish people into the sea.A decade ago that would have been an Iranian mullahs pipe dream.Now it is coming true.

Dip their bones in pig fat and they will never attack us again.

In the event someone in power reads this..THE ARABS ARE DEATHLY AFRAID OF PIG FAT/BLOOD AS THEY WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO BE BURIED IN A MUSLIM CEMETERY.

dONT BELIEVE IT, JUST LEAK IT AS A POSSIBLE TACTIC.

pigs SCARE THE TERRORISTS TO DEATH.

they cannot be martyred if this happens.

peace

I won't label my type of thinking for the sake of avoiding arguments; in my opinion, this battle is not our nation's place to be in. we should not be supplying either side with any weapons; we're basically committing assisted genocide. the gaza strip is fenced off with barbed wire, and the israelis are HUNTING the palestinians. no one can get in or out. a humanitarian act was attempted, but the ship that carried the supplies for help was shot down by the israeli army in international waters. it's a modern day nazi germany.