“As for my “simple” solution; I would start by insuring that everyone in the region knew that they were either our “friend” or our “enemy” and that we would protect our “friends”.

Well, mike o, what if, as often happens in the Mideast, two of what you’d call our friends are enemies of each other? The salient example is Fatah and Hamas, but there are many more. Or do you think Israel, Jordan, Turkey and Saudia Arabia are our only friends?

We are not the overlords of anyone, anywhere in the world, and we’ll only come to grief trying to be. For one thing we, the great and powerful United States, DON’T have a comprehensive anti-missile technology deployed that can give the coverage that geographically tiny Israel receives from it’s own HOMEGROWN technology right now. Despite your desire to award Reagan credit for their innovations, he deserves none. And in case you don’t realize it, mike o, Walker Texas Ranger was fiction.

In your defense, I think you confuse liberal concept of truth like obama saying “he killed bin laden” (meaning he actually shot they guy). To realistic statements like “thank Reagan” for moving the US and our allies towards a safety that liberals (at the time) believed unrealistic.

Nice try though….

As for my “simple” solution; I would start by insuring that everyone in the region knew that they were either our “friend” or our “enemy” and that we would protect our “friends”.

I certainly would not “kowtow” to any “leader”; and would make sure that our interests were clear.

I would unleash the energy potential in the U.S. so that we were not dependent on that region and then let those who were not our “friends” kill each other off as they seem to want to do when there are no “Americans” or “Jews” available.

Sandi, re: “when the day comes that you can “educate” me, I will leave this blog for good.”
Don’t go away mad…

Btw.. did I miss where you posted your “indignation with those “animals” dragging “Israeli sympathizers” bodies down the streets of gaza behind motorcycles?
Oh sorry, I forgot, you have left “for good”…

after giving it some thought, I’d have to say that “LA Woman” ranks right up there with Locomotive Breath”.

In Roanoke for a couple days, look forward to Shorefire, Half Moon, and Lazy Man.

For you RWers, I have a real hard time with all the RW bashing of Romney. This is the guy you wanted for president and now all I hear on TV is how lousy he was. Wow, you almost made him president. Yet, it turns out none of you liked him. Pretty sorry of the GOP to nominate someone they never even liked.

At the very least they should have stood by him for a week or two.