Name:	MAJ USA RET -	Reply
Subject:	y=mx+b
Date:	8/27/2013 8:41:17 PM (updated 8/27/2013 8:45:12 PM)

“Assad is estimated to have more than 1,000 tons of chemical weapons.”

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/27/any-us-strike-against-syria-like-to-last-hours-not-days/
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 Hmmmm… 1K tons? Certainly this is not the WMDs that were not in Iraq after we had successfully (and easily) defeated Sadam.  Oh no! That’s not possible.  Assad had been making them all along and NOBODY noticed… not even this Israelis!

This is what happens when one takes a simplistic approach to complex international issues. (all of you liberals should Google “simplistic”… it’s your forte… and while you are at it… Google “forte.”)

Remember when you wrestled with algebra in high school? Suddenly, the ol’ marm threw in a “quadratic” equation.  She added another variable.  Then there were TWO! In the politics and reality southwest Asia the NUMBER of variables is unknown.

Suppose (just put down your glass of pinot noir) that Sadam Hussein had sold… not a 1000 tons… not a hundred tons… not even one ton… maybe just a few gallons of this nefarious compound to al Qeada?

OH! Oh yes there were NO weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

(PLEASE, if you do not understand the concept of “decision matrix”… DO NOT jump in here and show your…)

Name:	MAJ USA RET -	Reply
Subject:	You need to simplify your equation
Date:	8/28/2013 9:17:58 AM

Okay... simplify... there is a very simple and adequate solution:

The Islamic world will despise us for interfering. Any weapons supplied to any side of the conflict will be eventually turned on us. If our cruise missiles or smart bombs kill any civilians… or even if they don’t… we’ll be excoriated in the media (not that Muslims are hesitant to shoot or blow up their own women and children).  Even if we DO NOT get involved, we will be blasted by the media. So… in the face of “d@mned if you do and d@mned if you don’t”… let’s just let the Muslims sort it out for themselves.

We should not turn the other cheek… we should turn our back… sadly and wisely so.

Name:	MAJ USA RET -	Reply
Subject:	Lets face it
Date:	8/28/2013 10:50:22 AM (updated 8/28/2013 10:51:42 AM)

Christianity has a well documented history of barbaric behavior. I’m not hearing any Christians deny that.  The major accomplishment has been the personalization of the religion… an increasingly smarter and critical body of adherents.

Christians (and Jews)  are able to veto forced conversion, crusades (jihad by Christians abetted by the church), and cruel enforcement of religious tenets. The mature religion allows that “coming to God” is a personal decision. The mature Christian recognizes the evolution of the “Children of God” from the failed, church imposed, warlike Zionism punctuated by periods of decadence – to the accommodation of the weaknesses of God’s people through the gift of grace offered in the New Testament.

Jihad and grace are mutually exclusive. To put it a more simple context, Christianity has matured into a deserving civility. Islam has not yet.

In your words, MM, “We need to become energy independent and let the Middle East return to the 6th century where their ideology and religion belong.”

Amen to that.