You used some prohibited “spam” word. I suggest you break your comments up in paragraphs and post them separately.

Because they are not for national security generally.

2) Because every Democrat leader I know is racist – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Connerly
It is not acceptable to be in favor of discrimination or preferential treatment based on race. If government is going to be in the business of giving a hand-up then it should do so for all who are economically or socially disadvantaged…

3) Because Senate TaxPayer friends as awarded by the National TaxPayer Union tend NOT to be Democrats http://www.ntu.org/main/page.php?PageID=151

We are all just paranoid people…. really.

Oh good. Suicide bombers completed their mission before they got started…..

Truth That article you linked was highly flawed.

Statements like:
1) The immediate backdrop begins with the Israeli disengagement from Gaza of summer 2005, ostensibly a good move, except one that left more issues open than it resolved. It was a unilateral initiative, so there was no coordinating the ‘what happens next’ with the Palestinians
response: How about they stop with the suicide bombings, teaching their children to be suicide bombers, lobbing rockets into Israel cities, having bad faith negotiations like the one in 2000 where they refused the very good deal.

2) Rather than test the Hamas capacity to govern responsibly and nurture Hamas further into the political arena and away from armed struggle, the U.S.-led international response was to hermetically seal-off Hamas, besiege Gaza, work to undemocratically overthrow the Hamas government
Response: I agree with the U.S. position. We took our position before the elections. It was clear that we would not deal with a terrorist organization as a governing power. They are not somebody you can sit down at the table with OR trade with OR allow to receive any money of any kind.

So… the article being flawed to it’s core pushed the blame on the U.S. as if Hamas being a terrorist organization is the U.S. or Israel’s fault. The poor serial murder was only doing what society made him do. It was all a “missed opportunity” by society. Blah blah blah. If I were you Truth. I’d never read an article there again – that’s what I’m doing. And mind you – I read a lot and from a lot of different sources. But when somebody wastes your time with that dribble you can only conclude that the rest of their writing is worthless.

3) Sadly it is too late for preventive action but there is an urgent need for a de-escalation that can lead to a new ceasefire
response: hmmm. that’s one opinion. What is needed is not a ceasefire but Hamas needs to step down and Palestinians need to stop teaching their children to suicide bomb. That is not happening on the Israel side. There cannot be negotiations (though Israel has tried) with people of such bad faith making such bad faith efforts. Terror is not an option. People with such hate cannot be allowed to become prosperous and gain access to bigger and bigger weaponry. National security and defense of one’s country is legitimate.

The article has the word neocon in it. How about I try to persuade you by calling you a liberal fascist. Works? no. Next time you link an article try to make sure it has some basic common sense!

Palestinians continue to marginalize their own selves. Israel has had to do checkpoints and security borders and blow up tunnels and find and target headquarters for one reason – Palestinians terror.

This is simply another Oslo style perspective, incredibly naive and the worst possible scenario, because it places a long-run misguided faith in the ultimate motives of the islamist-arab world, especially the Saudi’s agenda. A fully independent and sovereign “palestinian” entity in the West Bank, coordinated with a Hezbollah dominated Lebanon, and an Assad ruled Syria in conjunction with Russian and Iranian high tech weapons, time and training will set the stage for a final assault on an emasculated Israel; Perhaps as soon as one to two decades following some agreement imposed by a fleeting Obama administration. Factor in the very real possibility of the eventual demise of the Jordanian monarchy. The only redeeming aspect will be that a Saddam led Iraq regime will not be there (thanks to GW and company) to further endanger the situation. Anyone who seriously thinks otherwise is grasping at straws, or simply dishonest.

That said, Israel has a rapidly closing window of opportunity. They know what is at stake. And they know that their window closes on January 20th.

If they are to survive, they will have to take out Iran’s budding nuclear facility before then.

HOPE I am wrong.