Iraq: Consider This...

[quote]Sifu wrote:
The Vietnam war ended thirty two years ago. I watched the first few minutes of that video. I don’t see how napalm being used in Vietnam thirty five years ago, relates to Fallujah. The US no longer uses napalm.[/quote]

Not napalm per se but Mark-77, which has the exact same effect as napalm according to the British Ministry of Defense (the minister himself).

Watch the doc already! It’s 27 mns only.

[quote]lixy wrote:
rainjack wrote:
You have tried before, and was sent home with your tails between your legs. Then you guys ran to the US to broker a “peace agreement”.

I tried what?[/quote]

Here - read up:

[quote]rainjack wrote:
Here - read up:

http://www.historyguy.com/arab_israeli_wars.html [/quote]

What’s that gotta do with me?

I’m not of Arab descent, I would never support an aggressive tentative to destroy Israel, and I wasn’t even born back then.

[quote]lixy wrote:
rainjack wrote:
Here - read up:

What’s that gotta do with me?

I’m not of Arab descent, I would never support an aggressive tentative to destroy Israel, and I wasn’t even born back then.[/quote]

But you sympathize with those that do. That much should be blatantly obvious.

[quote]rainjack wrote:
But you sympathize with those that do. That much should be blatantly obvious. [/quote]

I recognize the right of return of the driven-out Palestinians. I think the people in occupied territories (regardless of the location) have the right to resist the occupying forces.

Israel is here to stay. There is no debate about that. I don’t sympathize with people trying to undermine its sovereignty. However, since the Zionist state doesn’t comply with UN demands, it’s entirely understandable that the Palestinians do justice themselves.

I don’t sympathize with any group who tried or is trying to invade Israel. How you can say that it’s “blatantly obvious” is beyond me.

[quote]lixy wrote:
I don’t sympathize with any group who tried or is trying to invade Israel. How you can say that it’s “blatantly obvious” is beyond me.[/quote]

That is because you have trouble with basic reading comprehension.

“Iraq is the tactical pivot.
Saudi Arabia is the strategic pivot.
Egypt is the prize.”

Egypt has the largest population in the Arab world, so calling the change of Egypt the “prize” isn’t incomprehensible. Many Arabs have pointed out how the bulk of their population are separated from the bulk of the oil wealth by national boundaries drawn by Europeans after World War I (the war to end all wars) – and therefore, a pan-Arab strategy is needed.