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F*O*A*D

On 3/10/14, 9:28 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 20:07:37 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

On 3/10/14, 8:03 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 16:48:51 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

On 3/10/14, 4:34 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 14:05:22 -0400, Poco Loco
wrote:

On Sun, 09 Mar 2014 19:46:19 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

Again, perhaps you could point to one 'righty' in here who likes what Putin has done.

I can't say I really "like" what Putin has done but I do not think it
rises to the level of something we need to do anything about.
That is particularly true if we do more than Europe is willing to do.

Compared to Putin, Netanyahu is a war criminal.

I'm not sure what we could do about Putin. Dick Cheney has ideas that
apparently involved the military. Perhaps he'll share those ideas,
though I have no idea why anyone would pay attention to that war criminal.

Considering what Bibi is facing in terms of countries and terrorists who
would like to push the Jewish Israelis into the sea, I don't have
problems with what he is doing. The threats to Israel are serious and
real and, again, he's probably killed a lot less Arabs and Muslims than
George W. Bush killed Iraqis and Afghanis, and the latter weren't
attempting to destroy the United States.

Perhaps if they were not building new settlements on the West Bank
every day, they might not be such a terror target.

It is pretty easy to call those terrorists, freedom fighters when they
are attacking a bunch of European colonialists that took their country
by force in 1947-8 and continues to expand into more territory since
then.
I can't understand why you can hug the Viet Cong and criticize the
PLO. You are certainly not consistent.

Don't even try to justify it with land claims made in a book you call
a fairy tale.
The Eastern Europeans had no more claim to Palestine than the Germans
had to Eastern Europe and they both took it the same way.

I've never "hugged" the Viet Cong. Further, there is no comparison
between what happened in Vietnam before, during and after WWII, and the
establishment of Israel.

You certainly have posted things here that align you far closer with
the Viet Cong than the United States but that is not the analogy I was
making.

The expansion of the original occupation of Palestine is as close to
"Lebensraum" as anything Putin is doing in Crimea.
They have continuously occupied the Crimea since long before the war
of that name.

The "original" occupation of what is now Israel predates the Muslim
religion.

The dirtiest hands in the Vietnam fiasco belong to the French and the
United States, and the hands were dirtied long before our serious,
direct military involvement in that country.