The tactics Israel has been using have not changed in over 50 years and they ARE NOT WORKING! I say again, if one hornet stings you to hit the hive with a stick is just DUMB!

And the tactics the arabs have been using against Israel has not changed either. If you think this is just an isolated incindent, then you are crazy.

Marketing a book without a major publisher is hard. People who have read my book have told me they thought it was outstanding and right on.

People have seen Michael Moore movies and thought they were "right on" as well. Doesn't mean anything really. Anybody who hates Bush would enjoy your book col. It doesn't take much intelligence to hate Bush and find other people who do also.

George W. Bush is running around telling the world that Syria and Iran are responsible for the new violence in the Middle-East.

Yes, it's true. George W. Bush is saying that Hizbollah is backed by Syrian and Iranian arms, cash, and fighters. Can you prove otherwise?

At the same time Israel is attacking Lebanon as the source of that violence?

Hizbollah's HQ is in Lebanon. The Israeli soldiers that Hizbollah kidnapped are in Lebanon. That is, unless they've already been transported to SYRIA or IRAN. Because Syria and Iran provide arms, cash, and men to Hizbollah...

Is any of this making sense to you?

IslandDog

The issue is not hating Bush but looking at what his policies are doing to resolve the issues facing our country. I looked at the following issues:

Economic Policy
National Defense
Social Security
Medicare/Medicaid
Energy
Homeland Defense
Education
Foreign Policy
Trade Policy
Environment

Hezbollah does operate in Lebanon but Israel attacking Lebanon could destroy the new democracy Bush supported and that he claims is the answer to stability. The attack on Gaza promoted this last attack by Hezbollah. There was no justification to attack and impact a million Palestinians because ONE soldier was captured by a terrorist group. The vast majority of the people in Gaza had NOTHING to do with that and now Israel has created untold new enemies to attack them in the future. If Israel succeeds in arousing a number of Moslem states that surround them, they will be in for a devastating war that could cause a much wider conflict! If we are smart we will stay out of this conflict!!!!!

There was no justification to attack and impact a million Palestinians because ONE soldier was captured by a terrorist group.

Just as there was no justification for toppling the Taliban government and impacting a million Afghanis because only FOUR airplanes were hijacked? Mmm hmmm... okay, whatever.

You really feel that Israel should allow terrorists to kidnap their soldiers without fear of reprisal? You must think this behavior should be encouraged? Wow.

Israel attacking Lebanon could destroy the new democracy Bush supported and that he claims is the answer to stability.

Bush supported the Lebanese finally doing something about the decades of Syrian puppet-mastery over their small nation. It wasn't a cure-all, it was only the first step towards self-determination for the Lebanese. And trying to oust Lahoud, which Syrian Pres. Assad appointed, was just a step in the right direction, which Bush (along with the whole darn international community) applauded. From Wikipedia:

Assad has been criticised for Syria's de facto occupation of Lebanon (which ended in 2005) and the USA put Syria under sanctions partly because of this. He is reported to have played a key role in the accession of the pro-Syrian General Emile Lahoud to the Lebanese presidency in 1998.

Why am I giving you a lesson in Near-eastern politics? You clearly know zero about this region. Why are you trying to pass yourself off as a Mideast policy expert by creating blah blah points out of thin air? The only things you really know about this region are the things used to refute you in this thread. And you're learning more as you go.

singrdave

The capture of the Israeli Soldier was wrong. It was the act of a terrorist group that does not represent the vast majority of Moslems. To attack a country and impact a million people because of ONE soldier is just NUTS and has resulted in the death and injury of thousands. Israel is NOT justified to start a war over the capture of one soldier by a few radicals! WE MUST STAY out of this fight. Israel started it and will have to be responsible for the consequences!

singrdave The capture of the Israeli Soldier was wrong. It was the act of a terrorist group that does not represent the vast majority of Moslems. To attack a country and impact a million people because of ONE soldier is just NUTS and has resulted in the death and injury of thousands. Israel is NOT justified to start a war over the capture of one soldier by a few radicals! WE MUST STAY out of this fight. Israel started it and will have to be responsible for the consequences!

I thought you said you used to be a soldier? For another countries military forces to capture that Israeli soldier, that act is considered an act of "war"! But you're right the US needs to stay out of it.

The capture of the Israeli Soldier was wrong. It was the act of a terrorist group that does not represent the vast majority of Moslems. To attack a country and impact a million people because of ONE soldier is just NUTS and has resulted in the death and injury of thousands. Israel is NOT justified to start a war over the capture of one soldier by a few radicals! WE MUST STAY out of this fight. Israel started it and will have to be responsible for the consequences!

Funny, I thought the first captured soldier was captured by Hamas and Hamas is the democratically chosen leaders of Palestine. Wouldn't that mean they represent the VAST MAJORITY OF THE PALESTINIANS? This just goes to show that even an idiot like Col can make a book and find people stupid enough to buy them, but hey, that's how those seen on TV products work.

If American soldiers were captured by terrorist like Hamas or Hezbolla, I would expect the same or worst from the US. And I could care less hwta you think Col.

Charles C

You are the stupid one. You support a Bush policy that says to achieve stability in the Moslem areas we need to give the people the ability to select their own government. When that happens and the people select representatives that WE and Israel do not like we refuse to deal with them. You can not have it BOTH WAYS.

As for my book, since my book is predicated on the thinking and advice of our countries BEST minds, what you are saying is YOU and the people like you know more then the best and brightest people in America. That says it all so far as your credibility is concerned!

You are the stupid one. You support a Bush policy that says to achieve stability in the Moslem areas we need to give the people the ability to select their own government. When that happens and the people select representatives that WE and Israel do not like we refuse to deal with them. You can not have it BOTH WAYS.

Don't be so ignorant Col. It's obvious that when anyone wants to help to make this world a better place, Hamas as a democratically chosen Gov't is not what anyone had in mind. You can be so stupid sometimes, you are willing to let people like Hamas to become Gov'ts and be accepted just to contradict Bush. I'm ashamed to think that you are American.

As for my book, since my book is predicated on the thinking and advice of our countries BEST minds, what you are saying is YOU and the people like you know more then the best and brightest people in America. That says it all so far as your credibility is concerned!

No Col, your books are predicated on people YOU and some others think are the best minds in this country. In the end they are all opinions and opinions do not make for facts. BTW, you don't know me, you know nothing about me therefor you have no clue how smart I really am. Just because some of these people have books, websites and maybe some awards does not make thier opinions more important than mine, specially when money is one of their motivations, like yours is. You go right ahead and believe people who write and say things not for the benifit of mandkind but for fame and fortune, you might as well get your information from a psychics, not much of a difference.

And as for the information you get from Gov't offices (which I know you will quickly try to throw at me), they make mistakes and sometimes it's how you interpret the info. In other words you may be right sometimes you will not be right all the time.

Get a clue and grow up already. Admit that all your accusations are based on a hatred towards Bush and not on facts. You stem cell article proves it.