Tony Blair and George W. Bush were on TV today, explaining why they don't get the hell out of Iraq and the Middle East.
Bush kept giving that tired rhetoric about how the terrorists hate us because we're free. They both tried to explain that we need to stay there because it's the right thing to do, etc. We have to stay the course, even in the face of overwhelming opposition in our home countries. There was some stuff about the flowering of democracy or something. I don't know. Might have been talking about virgins.
I guess the destabilization of the entire region is the right thing to do. I didn't know that inciting war could be a good thing. I guess there's a guy in his house, somewhere in Iraq, carrying his dead family out of the rubble that used to be his house, and he's thinking to himself, "yeah, I lost everything, but it was the right thing to do, because I can vote now. I just have to get past the mine fields and suicide bombers."
I'm tired of them claiming that they're over there for some sort of noble reason. The noble reason would have been the action in Afghanistan. Y'know...trying to find the person that they claimed was responsible for Sept. 11. Even though I secretly believe that the US Govt. was somehow responsible for that (well, not a secret anymore), you could connect the dots in a reasonable way. Everything else has just been extra. Fighting in Iraq has solved what, exactly? Yeah, you got Saddam in jail, but the entire country has become a warzone. Don't you think you've taken a step back? Not to mention the fighters from the other countries who came to Iraq to fight the Americans. Then, while you have all of your resources fighting Iraq, you start talking junk to Iran. Yeah, that's smart. Excuse me for failing to see the positives.
I'm tired of them saying that they hate America because we're "free." They don't hate America because we're "free." They hate America because we back Israel. That's the long and the short of it. If they hated America because it was "free," then they'd hate Japan for the exact same reason. And last time I checked, the only terrorists attacking Japan were other Japanese people.
Really, I'd hate America, too, if some white dudes came in out of nowhere and told me I had to move my camels and find somewhere else to live because it's giving this land to my sworn enemies. Me and all my friends would go buy some guns and act a fool. And that's exactly what happened. Just imagine if it happened to you.
Now, you got Hezbollah firing rockets into Israel and Israel retaliating, Hamas is doing something in the Gaza Strip, Iran is backing someone, Syria backing someone. It's all gotten way too confusing.
What the Israelis need to understand is, you are in hostile territory. The house next door to yours is someone who has sworn to eliminate you. However, the people who live in your backyard, were also promised some land, which you are currently occupying. Give it back to the Palestinians. Maybe they'll stop throwing rocks at you. Not running over them with tanks would also help.
What the Palestinians need to understand is, they need to get rid of the PLO. You're never going to get anywhere with that group making your decisions. I'm sure that there's a ton of good people within your ranks who just want to have their land and live their lives. That's cool. The PLO is never going to let you do that, though. They're just going to keep dragging you into conflict.
What all the extremist Muslim organizations need to understand is that, A: Israel isn't going anywhere, so you might as well get used to it. You haven't been able to get rid of it in 60 years, I'd say you've lost that battle. Israel being there isn't really hurting you, except on some religious level and it's not like they'd stop you from coming in and worshipping and stuff, it's just that you never act right. If you can't worship and keep from blowing stuff up, why should they treat you any other way than shooting rockets at you? B: Blowing stuff up isn't going to get you what you want. Killing people isn't going to get you what you want. All that's going to do is make people retaliate. And while you might think that you're ready for war and ready to die (they sound like rappers), you can't kill them all. So you need to ask yourself, what are you fighting for? What are you really trying to accomplish? If your answer is "to wipe Israel off of the map," you need to think again, because your leaders have duped you into thinking that's a realistic goal. That's never going to happen. At least, not until the aliens come.
Dammit, just stop killing people. Or at the very least, just stop going over there. If you're from Syria, you only share a border with Israel of what? 50 feet? Leave those people alone. They've got control of a mile and a half of land. And it's been that way for 60 years. Let it go. Stop living in the past. They're not leaving.
And what the American politicians need to understand is this: At least half of all Americans could really care less what's going on in the Middle East. At least half. When the news comes on, and Shepard Smith or Anderson Cooper goes, "There was more violence in the Middle East today," we roll our eyes and say, "Must be a rerun. What's on ESPN?" A lot of us just don't care anymore. It's not going to stop. There has been violence in the Middle East for some of our entire lives. I've been here for almost three decades and I've never know a time when there wasn't violence over there. So seeing as how they don't care enough to stop, I don't care enough to care. Everyone I've talked to about this knows my solution and while it's been refined here and there, it always begins with nuclear weapons and ends with a smoking crater where the Middle East used to be.
Give us a reason why we should care anymore. One that doesn't have to do with Jesus coming back.
You know what most Americans care about? Paying three dollars for a gallon of gas. Health care bills. The credit cards we abused when we were in college. Rent. Getting to work on time. Making sure our kids are fed and clothed. Stuff that's a little closer to home. We don't care about helping out people who want to die. We got our own problems. We'd like our government to do something about our needs for a change instead of trying to involve itself in everyone else's lives. The American government is like that PTA mom who's always ranting and raving about everything at the school, but doesn't even have time for her own kids. Then she wonders why they resent her later in life.
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