Random Thoughts

What's that? An alliance? They shake us down for $10 billion a year, we fight their wars, and their enemies--now our enemies--storm our borders seeking refuge? Sure! Sign me up!

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I never did grasp the "Palestine never existed" argument. Do people really think the land just lay there desolate?

Three of my four grandparents were Italian. My paternal grandfather was born in 1888; his mother was born in 1850. I suspect the word "Italy" didn't even appear in maps of 1850 Europe. Italy was a collection of city-states, kingdoms, principalities, etc., back then. It didn't "unify" to become a bona fide nation-state until 1861.

Does that mean Italians didn't exist before 1861? What does that make my great-grandmother? A non-feathered bipedal deplorable?

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The Israelis have legitimate interests and grievances. The Palestinians have legitimate interests and grievances. Both sides commit atrocities.

Americans have no dog in this fight. The U.S. is a dilapidated house. It has no business running around the world fixing everybody else's house.

People in their right mind understand U.S. politicians are too stupid, corrupt, and dangerous to run a daycare center. Why would anyone think these same cretins are qualified to run a globe-encircling military empire?

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“Let's steer clear of that crazy place! It’s none of our business!”

The only reasonable U.S. position is precisely the one U.S. politicians refuse to take.

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Can't they just stick with speech crime and insults and vicious stereotyping? If they keep lobbing bombs into each other's neighborhood, somebody's bound to get hurt.