tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post4209593526630256350..comments2020-04-11T03:30:02.282-05:00Gary R. Welshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-26368812489378331462009-01-04T03:13:00.000-05:002009-01-04T03:13:00.000-05:00PTS, Israel to this day is responsible for every single scrap of Middle East intel we have. Carter didn't believe in foreign intelligence at all and Reagan was fixated on the Russians. We are years and years behind the curve when it comes to Middle Eastern politics, intelligence, etc.<BR/><BR/>Go to an anti-terrorism class or a class on terrorism history. It's either taught by an Israeli or it's taught from a lesson plan put together by an Israeli. True, they don't have a lot to offer us because they're the size of Rhode Island and their very existence is threatened on a daily basis in ways our nation will never understand. However, they have unique talents unmatched in the rest of the world and they've been sharing that talent with us...Jasonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00098975387467002921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-22027429625353214362009-01-04T01:58:00.000-05:002009-01-04T01:58:00.000-05:00Part Time, I believe the reason you can't recall the number of Israeli civilians killed by Muslim extremists is because those numbers are very small in comparison to numbers of Palestinians killed in these kind of actions by Israel. I believe this is because of greatly superior Israeli security and military power, the later of which, of course, is largely due to U.S. assistance.<BR/><BR/>I am not attempting to make a statement of right and wrong in pointing this out. This is an awful and intractable conflict, and one to which there are no easy answers. Name calling is the kind of thing that perpetuates the conflict. An article which I read today was helpful to my understanding of recent events in Israel: "Israel's Gigantic Blunder" http://www.progressive.org/mag/avnery010209.htmlIndyPaulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15940502801797040457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-27125058838912195842009-01-03T22:10:00.000-05:002009-01-03T22:10:00.000-05:00Wolin is out of his gourd. Indiana is very accepting and tolerant, he just can't see it from his leftist plateau. For eight years we had a Jewish mayor. Our governor is Syrian (Mitch, yes). Every year an openly gay man, Jim Nabors, sings the state song at the 500. Indy has an active and gigantic gay community. Indy has more "mixed" marriages than almost any city in the US. <BR/><BR/>As for "public art", there's two big reasons not to have it:<BR/><BR/>1) It always ends up being leftist. <BR/><BR/>2) It's a criminally awful use of tax money - oh, sorry, Hoosiers, we can't pay for healthcare for some of you, we spent a million on public art.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05237857691537702382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-11389479336420429472009-01-03T19:27:00.000-05:002009-01-03T19:27:00.000-05:00isn't is also "funny" how reports of Israel's retaliation will always include how many Palestinian civilians and children were killed. I can't recall the last time I heard about how many Israeli civilians and children were killed by the Muslim Extremists.<BR/><BR/>What's even more amazing to me is that the Muslims have all of the Middle East - vast territories of oil-rich land - the Jews have this one, itsy-bitsy, little, teeny-tiny slice of land - and the Muslim hatred for the Jew just will not tolerate even a speck of Jewish land anywhere near them.<BR/><BR/>However, I'm not so sure this is "our" fight. Why do we protect the Jewish Nation? What's in it for us, as a nation? Does Israel provide us with any thing of value, or are we only providing support to them because some bankers here in the USA have ties to Judaism?stringchopperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02012448880084898429noreply@blogger.com