[lightning]

This hysterical screed from a citizen of an American protectorate that wouldn't survive a fortnight in the absence of our absolute friendship, largesse and bodyguard services.

This attitude (so superior and all knowing) makes me want to wretch.

[Don Joe]

This hysterical screed from a citizen of an American protectorate that wouldn't survive a fortnight in the absence of our absolute friendship, largesse and bodyguard services.

Your mind just slipped a gear.

You neglected to remember that "in the absence of" Israel's continued restraint -- at the urging of the US -- the "Arab World" would become the world's largest parking lot, and do so in far less than the space of "a fortnight."

Be careful what you wish for.