[billbears]

We all hate war.

Could have fooled me. The way some act, they won't be happy until that part of the world has a big stamp on the map that says USA Approved.

The Muslims started this conflict

They did? I thought it was a terrorist group called Al Qaeda that started this latest battle. Now it's the whole Muslim world? Are we going after the whole Muslim world next? Suppose we have to since they're going to establish a caliphate here pretty soon....

What are they grousing about? they’d still be bedouins had we not showed them they were rich with oil.

'We' didn't show them anything. For the record the a Brit discovered it IIRC. And I'm not exactly sure how you believe they thought they would be 'rich with oil' considering the Brits and the French already had plans by 1916 on how the ME was going to be split up with the oil companies owned for the most part solely by Western companies. Think they should be thankful of the creation of territorial lines that didn't exist before? Damn ungrateful Arabs. The French and the British tried to bring 'civilization' to them and they wanted to throw it off eh? (here's an interactive map of the region if the other one is too hard to understand..)

They want war? I say give them bloody red war

The West has only been mucking about in the region for the past 500 years trying to.....what were they trying to do again, oh yes, 'civilize' them...it just doesn't even cross your mind that perhaps as a people they want to be left alone or treated as perhaps not equals but business partners of a sort.

What is it with nations that believe everyone should act as they do, have the same standards as they do, even down to the same form of government, and its citizenry becomes upset when some in said territory don't want the same?

[mylife]

The West has only been mucking about in the region for the past 500 years trying to.....what were they trying to do again, oh yes, 'civilize' them...it just doesn't even cross your mind that perhaps as a people they want to be left alone or treated as perhaps not equals but business partners of a sort.

Yes we have been, and it wont end anytime soon. Ron Paul may wish it away but the western world has been embrioled with this since Saladin waged war on the west.

Oh, we have tried to live in peace, but these aholes just dont stop. Hand them their asses

[mylife]

What is it with nations that believe everyone should act as they do, have the same standards as they do, even down to the same form of government, and its citizenry becomes upset when some in said territory don't want the same?

Bill, I used to think I knew you. Some society's suck