[bucklebone]

True, political discussions read on this board amount to pissing in the ocean, but I think it helps both sides of an argument to form broader opinions and to galvanize their own opinion.

For example, I believe that this year is the beginning of a protracted World War. It is the Western World (US, Western Europe, Isreal, to-some-extent Russia) against worldwide Islamic Fascism (Iran, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, and parts of Saudi Arabia, Indonisia, Somalia, Venezuela, North Korea). Everyone seems to be taking sides in this eventuality. Hopefully, China will stay sidelined.

But this event yesterday with the attempted bombing of 10 trans-Atlantic flights, could have just as easily happened instead of being thwarted. Maybe (probably) the next time it will happen. And then what.

Do we just start nuking the entire Islamic world, or do we just live with the constant threat that any bus, train or plane that we are riding on might be blown to smithereens at any time. Spain, UK, India, France, Russia, the US and Japan have all been and will continue to be targets of this Islamic Fascist mob.