Post from 71-hour_Achmed -
Americans love their freedoms, but most don't give a flying crap about the third-worlders whom we're out trying to "save from themselves".
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Maybe so, maybe so, but I do know that if there's any country on the face of this globe that responds quickly, magnanimously, and unilaterally to any natural or man-made disaster on the face of this planet...it is US!
So you third-worlders out there, don't complain about the US with your mouths chock full of Care/Red Cross vittles, compliments of the greatest people who ever populated this blue marble, we call earth. US!
The hotel owner didn't do anything to piss off the Israelis to begin with -- they just took over his hotel and forced him out at gunpoint because they could. They wanted a place to make an outpost, so they picked his. No compensation, no cleanup after they caused it to be destroyed.
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It's called War my friend and it's never gonna be a pretty post-card scene, wherever it takes place, which leads me to to your next comment...
Here's hoping that some day it happens to you.
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Wow! Is that your 'Christmas wish'?[:D]
Well, all I can say in response to that is that if it does one day happen to me, what I'd really like to know, [b]71-hour_Achmed[/b], is which side [u]you[/u] will be fighting on in that day?
Will you be on the side of righteousness, liberty, and justice, you know, the American Way, or not?
Explain to me how Yasser Arafat can be a hero to anyone. Explain how taking planes and slamming them into commercial buildings during business hours can result in the celebrations that we saw on the West Bank, in Gaza, and in Cairo. Explain to me how a mass-murderer can have his likeness found on t-shirts from Cairo to Timbuktu.
Explain all this and maybe we can begin to understand such a foreign concept in our 'made in America' minds!
You know that I am a Christian and that 50% of the Palestinians in Bethlehem are Christians, so it is very likely that the manager and owners of the hotel were Christians, and knowing all this, can you understand why I still support Israel in its undertaking?
Eric The(OneDayYouMayUnderstand)Hun[>]:)]