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Thursday, May 19, 2011

Israel and Egypt

  So the day after I rant about the amount of foreign aid we give out, I hear that Pres. Obama has promised a billion dollars in aid to Egypt, to build infrastructure and create jobs.  Ok, what about our infrastructure and jobs at home???  It's a billion dollars we didn't have to begin with. It's not there, and there's nothing we can do to make it be there.  I'm encouraging people, write your Congressperson about this.  Tell them, we don't have the money to give away, we don't even have the money to run our own affairs.  The sad part of all this is that as a soldier, I can only afford to vote against a proven leader if another good leader steps up to the plate. So far, it looks like my vote is going to Herman Cain.
  As for Israel, there is no reason to support Israel going back to the 1967 borders.  No matter what, hardline jihadis will continue to attack Israel as long as it exists.  And make no mistake, I believe Israel has a right to exist.  And I believe Israel has every right to possess  the West Bank and Gaza Strip.  These lands are the ancestral homeland of the Jews.  And everyone who calls themself a Christian has a duty to support Israel.  With the current situation in the Middle East, there is no way to start giving land to terrorist organizations, and that is exactly what would happen if Israel gave land to the "Palestinians", who, by the by, are Levantine Arabs.
  We, the United States, should assist Israel in pushing back the Arab population to across the Jordan River, and help establish a strongly defended national border for Israel.  Muslims have their holiest site, it is the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca.  Christians maintain possession of their holiest sites, such as the Church of the Annunciation, the Church of the Nativity, and the Church of Calvary.  Why can't the Jews have one little mountain, and put their temple on it.  Why is it that hardline Muslims have to destroy the things of other religions.  Don't they realize they're hurting their own cause of spreading the teachings of Muhammad by blatantly ignoring other peoples' rights?
  Would several of the Muslim nations attack Israel and the US if such a situation arose?  Yes, they most certainly would, but such a war would devastate the Muslim world.  The fact is, we're now at the crossroads, where such a war would be better fought sooner rather than later.  If Iran gained possession of a nuclear arsenal, and North Korea were to become involved, the death toll of such a war would be horrendous, and several large swaths of the Middle East would be green glowing glass.  And once we turned our attention from the Middle East to North Korea, China would be unable to support N. Korea, because of the ethical concern of siding with one of the nations that started a nuclear war.  Many nations would stay out of a war if it was just the US and N. Korea, but if China were to join, we'd have the full support of NATO and India.  The fact is, we're in a much stronger position politically than a lot of liberals would have you believe.
  We can't have our leadership playing Neville Chamberlain to the Terrorists Adolf Hitler.  It's that simple.  The US has made all the concessions we should have ever made to these people, and they continue to seek ways to attack us.  Those Muslims who would live in peace and practice their religion in a peaceful manner, we should leave alone as much as possible, but it's time to deal with terrorists as what they are, outright war criminals and human rights violators.

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