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The most serious population explosions are occurring not in the West, though affluence and high consumption increases its impact. It's in the underdeveloped world. Thus, fortunately, the Islamic State is pioneering birth control efforts. See ISIS Pushes Birth Control to Maintain Sex-Slave Supply.

Are these coincidences: Suicide car bombing kills 34 in central Ankara At least 16 dead as gunmen storm Ivory Coast beach resort

There are a few differences. If Israel loses it will be the last defeat. And as a practical matter its Jewish citizens have no where to go. We learned that in WW II. The Arabs have alternative countries in which to live. We don’t. And also when Israel wins the conquered areas suffer occupation. Any idea what would happen to the Jews if Israel were overrun? I’m not quite sure what you’re trying to say here. I am citing to actual experience, not theoretical possibilities. Thats a whopper. Jews were to my knowledge always banned from Mecca. And certainly since the creation of the State of Israel. It has nothing to do with Israels seizure of territory in 1967 in an Arab-initiated war. My response was to something claimed of someone else and I don't have context to determine what you find so shocking (a whopper)? [i wish we had access here to easily quote and quote within quotes. This was already more than a week ago and appears distracting of what the conversation has evolved to. What's a "whopper" was your statement that the Jews' banning from Mecca was a response somehow to Israel's aggression. My understanding was the Mecca always excluded Jews and Christians. I'll PM you on how to multi-quote text.

And Gaza, Syria, the PA, the IS et. al. are democracies?

When the Arab/Muslim side is utterly unrealistic, refuses to engage in good faith negotiations and adopts abhorrent tactics \to what other conclusion can one come? The Arabs/Muslims started four essentially unprovoked wars. Before settlements started they were given multiple opportunities for territorial resolutions, which they refused. Settlements only started when it became obvious that the Arabs would never agree to a Jewish state of Israel inside any boundaries. There are consequences to starting and losing wars. Sadly, those are often tragic for the losing side. Why is Israel not permitted to be a victor? What Muslim society has succeeded as an independent country? I give up. Thats a whopper. Jews were to my knowledge always banned from Mecca. And certainly since the creation of the State of Israel. It has nothing to do with Israels seizure of territory in 1967 in an Arab-initiated war. Either I am too stupid to follow or that was totally unintelligible or incoherent.

This post is in response to Trump's announcement of his intention to skip the March 21, 2016 debate in Salt Lake City, Utah. I will only respect the Republican Party if it does enforces its own rules concerning debate, and centuries-old custom regarding civility in campaigning. The debate must proceed as scheduled, even if it is only between Mr. Trump and Mr. Cruz. If Mr. Trump does not attend in my view he is not eligible to have his name placed in nomination. The rules were established, if I recall correctly, to curb abuses such as Jimmy Carter’s refusal to debate Edward Kennedy in the “Rose Garden Campaign” of 1980. We all saw what happened when Jimmy Carter was lured into debating Reagan that October, but I digress. Mr. Trump is dodging the debate(s) for tactical reasons; he fears going one-on-one with a debate champion with an Ivy League college and law school pedigree. Donald Trump’s tactics have been a disgrace both to the Republican Party and this country. Personally, I have a nephew with arthrogryposis, the disease that Mr. Trump mocked at a press conference. But taking it away from the personal, we do not run campaigns with name calling, racial slurs, or comments on candidates’ personal appearance. Or size of their male member. I expect the political parties to be “gatekeepers” in our great republic. This country is not a democracy or mobocracy for very good reasons. When our Founders designed the Constitution, France was already circling the drain for the bloodbath that would become the French Revolution. Thus, the Constitution was written to strip the mass of people from the ability to elect a head of state or a prime minister directly. The Republican Party, in my view, has a responsibility to say “Donald Trump is not my people.” And, it must enforce its own rules concerning debates. And do so with courage and conviction.

I'm glad you said that. What about recklessly putting civilians at risk to become collateral damage? Where is it written that Hamas has to fight from within civilian areas?

The date is June 23, 2016 and I hope they exit. In an excellent article, ‘Brexit of Champions’: How Britain May Trigger A Political Earthquake Seth Lipsky quotes the American Spectator for the phrase Brexit of Champions (link). Britain and the EU are truly a poor fit. The UK's natural allies are its successful offspring, such countries as the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Israel and India. These countries have been successful, forward looking countries. The continental EU countries are in many respects frozen in time. They're beautiful museum pieces but like their many churches largely bereft of worshipers, are places of the past, not the future. Britain joined the EU in 1973, at a time when the U.S. was crippled by the Vietnam War and its opposition, Watergate, price controls, inflation and the energy crisis. Now the UK and other freedom-loving countries should be looking to the future, not to the mercantalist, bureaucratic past..

I don't think things were going too well before ISIS. Do you?

And how is Zionism different from every other movement for “self-determination”? Hint, Israel, the end-product of Zionism, accomplishes something in addition to indiscriminate killing. Israel, the end-product of Zionism, accomplishes something in addition to soaking up international subsidies and channeling them to Swiss bank accounts or murder. Zionism has one other critical distinction that really makes people squirm; it is a Jewish movement. Why do people like you bring up and make up an alleged “Palestinian” identity for what really are groups of Arabs similar to those in multiple other states? That is unfortunately what happens when Syria, Iraq and Libya are unable to govern themselves with efficient, decent government. What about the unprovoked Egyptian blockade of the Straits of Tiran that triggered the Mideast war? Was Israel supposed to let itself be cut off from vital imports such as oil? What about the Khartoum declaration? Hint, that was “no peace, no recognition, no negotiations. What about the steady refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish state? Do you realize that the Arabs had plenty of opportunities that they passed up? As Abba Eban said, “the Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.” The building of the terror tunnels and the kidnapping and murder of three random students wasn’t? Maybe the U.S. needs a stable, reliable ally in that part of the world. One that isn’t one bullet or gasoline bomb away from being wiped out?

I'm shocked. I thought they paid their bills with their own ingenuity and economic productivity.

If people didn't move to other places or take land, the Great Rift Valley of Africa would be a mighty crowded place. I g uess that all movements of people then were/are OK with you up till, oh, the late 1800's when it just happened to be the Jewish people that wanted a homeland in which to exercise self-determination. So I get it. When the Ottoman Empire was created and took over "Palestine" that was OK. When the Ottoman Empire imploded, it was OK for all other people to get their plot of land on which to kill people, but not the Jews? Keep in mind, there were always Jews there. The world's hypocrisy (not only yours) is overwhelming.

I'm going to take a politically incorrect stab at this. This is the beginning of another fund-raising hustle by not-for-profits. After every tragedy they post pitiful pictures of famished children. In this case it will be children with small heads. They then hold glittering fundraising events. The money raised goes....into more fundraising.

It would be really nice, but unrealistic, to expect that the majority of decent Muslims would isolate and marginalize the savages, the same way that Jews marginalized and isolated the Jewish Defense League in the 1970's and 1980's.

But it would make Trudeau feel a gush of virtuosity.

Here is a good beginning for a Trump speech (too long for a Tweet). This speech in its original form was delivered in Germany on January 30, 1945 and is thus public domain: German compatriots! National Socialists! Twelve years ago, when, as the leader of the strongest party, I was entrusted by the deceased Reich President, [Field Marshal Paul] von Hindenburg, with the office of Chancellor, Germany found herself faced with the same situation internally as the one that today faces it externally. The forces of economic destruction and annihilation of the Versailles dictate led to a situation that had gradually become a permanent one-namely, the existence of almost 7,000,000 unemployed, 7,000,000 part-time workers, a destroyed farmers' class, a ruined industry and a commerce that had become correspondingly prostrate. The German ports were nothing but ship cemeteries. The financial situation of the country threatened at any moment to lead to a collapse not only of the state but also of the provinces and of the communities. The decisive thing, however, was this: Behind this methodical destruction of Germany's economy, there stood the specter of Asiatic bolshevism. It , was there then, just as much as it is there today. In the, years before our assumption of power the bourgeois world was incapable of opposing this development effectively on a small scale, just as it is incapable of doing so today on a large scale. Even after the· collapse of 1918 this bourgeois world had failed to realize that an old world was vanishing and a new one being born and that there is no use in supporting and thus artificially maintaining what has been found to be decayed and rotten, but that something healthy must be substituted for it. A social structure that had become obsolete had cracked and every attempt to maintain it was bound to fail. Calls "Bourgeoisie" Still Doomed It was no different from today on a large scale, when the bourgeois states are doomed and when only clearly defined and ideologically consolidated national communities can survive the most difficult crisis Europe has seen in many centuries. ************** Thereupon Judaism began systematically to undermine our nation from within, and it found its best ally in those narrow-minded bourgeoisie who would not recognize that the era of a bourgeois world is ended and will never again return, that the epoch of unbridled economic liberalism has outlived itself and can only lead to its self-destruction and, above all, that the great tasks of our time can be mastered only under an authoritarian coordination of natural strength, based on the law of: same rights for all and, thence, of same duties.

Frankly it would not surprise me if Trudeau withdrew Canada's recognition of Israel. Likewise Obama with the U.S. They seem to think that the Arabs will leave the West alone if we appease them. That didn't work so well for Chamberlain.

No. I'm juxtaposing them to their enemies. Israel's enemies don't fight with one or two hands tied behind their backs.

I feel the same way about Justin Trudeau. I guess they have that in common. Lol. Hey good for you. For once you said something inappropriate. Hah feels good admit it. Listen you get down to it, Trump looks like he is sucking on lemons or is straining and severely constipated, Jeb Bush looks like he wet his pants and Hilary Clinton looks like a Nazi prison guard mixed with pro golfer. Don't get me started. If we go by looks, the only one qualified to be US President is Harrison Ford or Queen Latifah. Hahaha! Those are some pretty good assessments. Sucking on lemons haha so true. Very funny. Though I don't think we should be playing Trump's game.

Are you saying they didn't have wars and massacres on their own?

As we saw in San Bernardino whenever they want to.

Sounds a bit like the 1989 movie "Lean on Me."

Who will fill the baskets by your logic?

In this article,In ISIS Strategy, U.S. Weighs Risk to Population (link) the U.S., under Obama's "leadership" is favoring the civilians living under ISIS control to the lives of Westerners. This is contrary to his duties to both his country and his allies. It is the job of the people living in and near ISIS controlled regions to bring down their murderous overlords, on the grounds of either morality or self-preservation. The grounds or reasons don't interest me. But it is not our duty to fight a war in an ineffectual manner. Make no mistake, this is a war. They have taken "credit" for both Paris and San Bernardino. Even if the ISIS leadership or caliph had nothing to do with the massacres they now own the attacks, plain and simple. If we had to fight Germany and Japan this way in WW II the monster governments would still be in charge. A brief article excerpt from the left-leaning New York Times illustrates this: As the capital of the Islamic State’s self-declared caliphate, Raqqa holds a dense concentration of potential targets: The group’s top leaders work and live in the city, and the bureaucracy they have created to run the self-declared caliphate is based there. There are financial specialists, computer experts, field commanders and as many as 10,000 foot soldiers, and they congregate in dozens of places, including the headquarters buildings. Raqqa’s city hall is Exhibit A in the difficulties in targeting in an urban environment. Even the most advanced and precise missiles and bombs cannot achieve the surgical precision needed to target only militants in the city hall building, American officials said. The top floors are a dormitory for fighters from across the region, residents of Raqqa said, estimating that there are about 150 men, most of them from Saudi Arabia or Tunisia. But the rest of the building is used by civilians. One thing is clear; the responsibility for the death of civilians is on ISIS, not those trying to dislodge them or retaliate for the bloodbaths they perpetrate.

One international basket case recognizing a would-be international basket case. Oh joy.