by OLD1953 » Thu Sep 22, 2011 12:07 am
My attitude about the Israel/Palestine mess is quite simple, both sides are wrong, I don't have to pick a side to support (this isn't football) and a pox on both their houses as far as I'm concerned. There is no requirement for the US to "fixit", there is no fixing this short of war so terrible both sides beg for it to end. The longer it waits, the worse it will be, and now the rest of the MidEast has reached a point of not caring (according to street polls) so delaying the inevitable is simply making it worse in the end. Doubtless yet another and then another magic formula will be proposed until that time when the US is busy with WWIII, and then they'll just get on with it and we'll see several million people trying to murder each other.
As for the promises, I can't fix everything, but give me a budget of ten billion a year for 20 years and I'll fix everyone's worries about climate. That one's relatively easy, it just takes some engineering and work. And no more wide scale droughts as a bonus. Might be able to bring the rains back to the Sahara Desert as well, which would be a good thing, that was some of the most productive land known in early Roman times.
My attitude about the Israel/Palestine mess is quite simple, both sides are wrong, I don't have to pick a side to support (this isn't football) and a pox on both their houses as far as I'm concerned. There is no requirement for the US to "fixit", there is no fixing this short of war so terrible both sides beg for it to end. The longer it waits, the worse it will be, and now the rest of the MidEast has reached a point of not caring (according to street polls) so delaying the inevitable is simply making it worse in the end. Doubtless yet another and then another magic formula will be proposed until that time when the US is busy with WWIII, and then they'll just get on with it and we'll see several million people trying to murder each other.
As for the promises, I can't fix everything, but give me a budget of ten billion a year for 20 years and I'll fix everyone's worries about climate. That one's relatively easy, it just takes some engineering and work. And no more wide scale droughts as a bonus. Might be able to bring the rains back to the Sahara Desert as well, which would be a good thing, that was some of the most productive land known in early Roman times.