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Pretty good post.   The more I learn, the more I question everything Ive ever been taught.  Wars are more Bankers & those that seek World Conquest.   Nothing just 'happens'.   Everything is planned, every more is deliberate & well thought out by those employed ie Think Tanks (JINSA, AEI etc)

A simple anaology that might help

Most bachelors eventually come face to face with the dreaded kitchen sink. It's not something you plan on. After a period of living alone, you come to the realisation that no one is going to complain if the dishes are not washed immediately... so, you don't. You put them in the sink, but never really make the time to wash them, somehow.

You start to feel a little guilty about not washing them, usually about the time your last dish hits the sink and you start using paper plates. So you run some hot water into the sink, and pour in some dish soap. Got to let them soak a little, right? Only...they keep on soaking, the suds disperse, and eventually the water drains, leaving the dishes looking even dirtier than ever. So you run some more water, and pour in some more soap. To let them soak.

After a while, the water doesn't drain out as fast as it once did. The sink doesn't look all that bad, though, especially if you throw in some fresh soap from time to time. The surface of the water looks calm, and as long as you can't see more than shadowy shapes beneath the filmy, sudsy surface, you don't have to deal with them. One of these days, of course, you will...but not right this minute. It's such a big job now, after all, and there's other things that have to get done.

One day, when you least expect it, you get hit by the reality of your kitchen sink. Maybe you spot a cockroach. Perhaps your girlfriend comes over to watch television and eat Chinese takeout, but screams and runs out after going into your kitchen. You might find a note from your landlord threatening to call the Health Department, after he came in to test the smoke alarms while you were at work. Sure, you can always kill the bugs, take the girlfriend out to dinner from now on, and bribe the landlord. But that's not going to make the problem go away. There's no more procrastinating... you have to clean the sink.

So you buy some of those thick Playtex gloves, scrub pads and a bottle of industrial-strength anti-bacterial dish soap. You consider a gas mask... but how bad can it really be? Answer: really bad. The first thing you have to do is reach all the way to the bottom of that mess and pull the foul, slimy, crud-encrusted plug out of the drain. Until you do so, all that filthy water is going to stay right where it is. Only then can you run the water as hot as it gets, pour in the soap, and start scrubbing... holding your breath for as long as you can before turning your head to breathe. You could swear you've never eaten anything purple and green... so how'd it get on your dishes? That gas mask sure looks like a good idea now, doesn't it?

The Middle East became something like that sink full of dirty dishes -- ignored for years, as long as it looked calm on the surface. Yet beneath the water, out of sight, filth was growing and disease was brewing. We spotted not one, but nineteen cockroaches on 9/11. The Left just wanted to clean the single most visible plate -- Afghanistan -- and stop, but that would have done nothing to fix the problem. Iraq was the plug holding the water in place -- Saddam acted as a block to Iran's ambitions, while enabling many of the worst terrorists and terror groups in the Middle East. His removal has caused movement in the region at last -- as Iran gets aggressive, at least some Arabic countries are finding that they fear Persian domination more than they hate the West. The work is dirty and foul at first, as the dishwater drains, but necessary to cleaning the area. Just look at all the dead terrorists swirling around Iraq's drain... something the "mainstream" media never talks about.

Neither cleaning the sink nor cleaning the Middle East are the kind of job you can stop in the middle, either, just because they're so hard. If you give up, problems will only start to pile up all over again. The up side is that once you're done, you're unlikely to ever let things get so bad again. But only if you finish.

* If you're reading this, Mom: it's fiction. Really.

geeee whizzzzzzzz  ya think there are radical american about right now ????????

Despite evocative “sink full of dirty dishes” analogy, I must disagree with your latest remarks, RPK.

Under Saddam, ordinary Iraqi folk led relatively normal lives (at least they had lives!) On top of innumerable civilian deaths attributable directly to US invasion, they’ve since mostly lived in mortal fear, uncertainty, and brutal chaos. In lieu of different ethnic groups, and long-standing sectarian antagonism between Shiites and Sunnis, if not Kurdish ambitions, maybe there was a rational basis after all, or need even, for his strongman regime?

Then, although all-out supporting the Mujihadeen to the hilt against the Russian military, the US promptly avoided giving desperately needed help during conflict’s traumatic aftermath. Oil then obviously didn’t rate the same priority! Despite contrary US propaganda, you’ll also find that most Asian and Middle East folk, given ample religious freedom and sufficient scope to better personal material wellbeing, put generally more store in stability than any American/Western notions on democracy.

Removing Saddam cabal only created a power vacuum, regional and domestic, leaving most Iraqis fearful of the possibly murderous civil strife to come (many would leave the country if they could!) Once the Americans depart, how long will the mullahs tolerate present, or any other secular government for that matter? Shiites and Sunnis alike are currently merely biding their time (they’d rid themselves of el-Qaeda and other ‘foreign fighters’ as well, if only they could); with the temporary lull in hostilities at mullahs’ instigation, not the Government’s, nor the result of any particular American efforts.

There’s scant evidence to suggest that Saddam supported terrorist groups – and he certainly wanted nothing to do with el-Qaeda or bin Laden. I haven’t really noticed any Arab countries fearful of Iran’s (Persian) ambitions. I also doubt that 9/11 had, as such, much to do with radical Islam elements, and surely nothing with Saddam or Iraq! Supported by an assortment of Saudis and other Arabs, it seems peculiarly down to bin Laden’s personal agenda versus the West, if not the US in particular. He not only hates the Saudi ruling elite’s relationship with the US (and thus the Saudi’s implied subversion of Islam tenets), but the more hostility between us and Islam, the better he’d like it! 

RPK...Iran has NEVER in its history, invaded another nation or launched Pre emptive war.

IF any one is trying to 'take over'  the world, its AmeriKa, with 700 Military bases in 130 nations & several pre emptive, unconsitutional wars & Coups to our 'credit'.  

And you want to continue 'nation building', which is EXACTLY what our Constiutional Framers & Founding Fathers were opposed to.

"I cant help but think before Israel, America had No enemies in the Middle East"   -John Sheehan, SJ

Just  received this  a few ago . THOUGHT IT FITS RIGHT IN HERE/

Michael got this from a friend at work who has a friend in Afghanistan.
Not surprising.

>>  (Below is from Tiffany)
>>
>>  I don't know each of your personal political convictions, and
>> apologize
>>  if anyone finds this offensive.  I thought it was important enough
>> to
>>  share.  This is Jeff's first hand view of Senator Obama.
>>
>>  ---------- Forwarded Message ----------
>>  Hello everyone,
>>  As you know I am not a very political person. I just wanted to pass
>> along
>>  that Senator Obama came to Bagram Afghanistan for about an hour on
>> his
>>  visit to "The War Zone". I wanted to share with you what happened.
>>
>>  He got off the plane and got into a bullet proof vehicle, got to
>> the area
>>  to meet with the Major General (2 Star) who is the commander here
>> at  Bagram.
>>
>>  As the Soldiers where lined up to shake his hand he blew them off
>> and didn't say a word as he went into the conference room to meet the

>> General. As he finished, the vehicles took him to the ClamShell
>> (pretty much a big top tent that military personnel can play
>> basketball or work out in with weights) so he could take his
>> publicity pictures playing basketball. He again shunned the
>> opportunity to talk to Soldiers to thank them for their service.
>>
>>  So really he was just here to make a showing for the American's
>> back home that he is their candidate for President. I think
that if
>> you are going to make an effort to come all the way over here you
>> would thank those that are providing the freedom that they are
>> providing for you.
>>
>  I swear we got more thanks from the NBA Basketball
>> Players or the Dallas
>>  Cowboy Cheerleaders than from one of the Senators, who wants to be
>> the President of the United States. I just don't understand how
>> anyone would want him to be our Commander-and-Chief. It
was almost
>> that he was scared to be around those that provide the freedom for
>> him
and
>> our great country.
>>
>>  If this is blunt and to the point I am sorry but I wanted you all
>> to know what kind of caliber of person he really is. What you see in
>> the news is all fake.
>>
>>
>>  In service,
>>  CPT Jeffrey S. Porter
>>  Battle Captain
>>  TF Wasatch

       American soldier

Not surprised by your email, ahSighEE: a carefully orchestrated, nothing left to chance, rigidly controlled PR exercise/photo-opportunity, targeting largely gullible television-viewing public back home. (One particular soldier’s apt utterances might have been crafted for him by a political hack!) Much the same for Obama’s utopian pie-in-the-sky, building-bridges Berlin speech. As for most modern politicians, he represents what the Athenians feared most: candidates gladly promising anything at all solely in order to get elected. Whoever wins the election, I venture it will be business as usual.

Much said about those terrible “illegals.”  But, walk in the shoes of a young Mexican for a moment, if you will: poverty-stricken, unemployed or on starvation pay, and with no prospects to speak of. Wouldn’t you eschew home and kin for that land of milk and honey beckoning just across the border? It would take more than a fence to stop me! Whereas the Canadians are quite happy to stay put. And aren’t folk as these the very stuff that made America? Mexico thus is a great place for companies needing cheap labor, or the means for bypassing US legal obstacles, yet the richest country on the planet (and with billions of dollars to spare for Israel!) can’t do more to lift its neighbor out of its poverty cycle? Or maybe hand back California, New Mexico and Texas!

Speaking of Israel, Balfour Declaration was some classic piece of political expediency! If outcome weren’t so dismal, humorous in a way too: "nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine"! And: “At that time the British were busy making promises. At a war Cabinet meeting, held on 31 October 1917, Balfour suggested that a declaration favorable to Zionist aspirations would allow Great Britain ‘to carry on extremely useful propaganda both in Russia and America’”!

I also recall reading an essay penned by Winston Churchill before the Great War, where he denounced the whole notion of a Jewish state in Palestine (and in which he fairly flagged present situation), but it seems he covered himself nicely with his 1922 White Paper, denying that creating such a new state was the intention.

Many possible  Homelands for European Jews,  were offered & available, and did Not involve them Physically & Violenetly Evicting & Ethnically cleansing the Palestinians.  

Israel was chosen for its proximity to World Oil, which will pump to Haifa Israel, giving Israelis control over most of the worlds Oil.   This has been planned for decades Now.

The real reason for Obama's Trip was to go to Israel & meet with their leaders to take his orders. Notice the photos of this traitor.

http://judicial-inc.biz/87Jerusalem_obama.htm

Separating fact from fiction

AhSighEE said:

"Just  received this  a few ago . THOUGHT IT FITS RIGHT IN HERE/"

and the truth is........................................................

www.snopes.com/politics/obama/afghanistan.asp