Warning: The following is way off topic, but I had to respond to the attack on a fellow citizen. Go back to what ever you were doing and skip this message if you don't want to read any political opinion.
adz wrote:
AndrewBell wrote:
Going OT for a moment:
How is a government or security agency supposed to stop the bad guys without intruding in the privacy of the masses? Accept the fact that your emails and cell phone calls are monitored, and be careful about your communication. Wish that GW was dead? Fine, just don't email it to relatives in the middle east.
I'd prefer to lose a little privacy, than lose my life to a suicide bomber.
Another example of someone who has their head firmly implanted up their arse, this is getting all too common. If you want to stop suicide bombers, how about petitioning your government to stop invading other countries in conquest of oil supplies?
Conquest of oil supplies??? I wish it were that simple, the gas and oil prices in the US keep rising just like every where else that I have heard of on this planet. Perhaps your example of an implanted head is looking back at you from your mirror!!!
I disagree with this war we are in just as much as anyone, but my reasons are due to the way in which it was started unilaterally and based on bad information or flat out lies, but don't be naive and think that the US is profiting from this war in any way other than attempting to bring stability to the region, which may at some far distant date help to reduce the frequency of drastic changes in oil prices world wide (maybe). This war is costing average taxpayers in the US like me and future taxpayers like my children untold trillions of dollars. There is no monetary profit for the US in this war. Perhaps if other nations could envision a successful end to the conflict they would join us for the common good that would result for the whole world.
I have only a little hope that a successful end to the conflict will occur in my, or even my children's lifetime. The war will end and the US will remove our troops, but without education and tolerance for all and by all that live in that entire region of the world, there will be no peace.
The US cannot impose its beliefs and systems there, we can only teach them how to understand who and what we are, while at the same time, we are learning to understand who they are and how we can all live together in peace. Education is the answer to World Peace.
