deadzone, what’s your solution? Cut off support to a long term ally, watch as they’re slaughtered, and hope we’re not next?

Is Israel the cause of Islamist violence in Somalia, Kashmir, Thailand, and the Philippines, besides everywhere else in the world?

Perry, Gordon said in those same comments that if we are there, we should try to win. Do you agree with him (and McCain and Lieberman – you’re right, this isn’t a partisan issue)? If you “just don’t care anymore,” why do you keep posting about it? Do you imagine that Islamist violence is Bush’s problem alone? I have bad news for you – it predates him, and it will outlast him, which means pretending it will vanish in 2008 is a guaranteed loser of an idea.

Surely you know that the oil isn’t ‘taken’, it’s bought – and if we didn’t buy it, what kind of shape would the Arab world be in? Why are you so invested in justifying the motives of people who want to kill you?