Why, obviously it's the oil, right? From what I've seen of your typing, that seems to be all any conflict could ever reduce to. This fight could be in an oil-poor country like Tunisia and you'd shout about the US trying to corner the chicken-grease concession. It's like there could absolutely never be any other reason for the Middle East to be in such an uproar, or for the US to get involved, than the obvious theft of oil.

I really hate to rant. At parties, I sit quietly and nod my head a lot, knowing better than to pick a fight about something so stupid as politics and/or war. Might as well argue about football. Same results. At best, it's unbecoming. At worst, you've lost a friend, an acquaintance, a significant whatever. At best, I just try to keep my beast chained up, but then, occasionally...

Some people are greedy and hate anyone who has more of anything than they -- particularly money -- and I understand this. I don't agree, but I understand it. It's a human nature. The trouble is, they also tend to hate Corporate America, simply because the corporations (only the richest, of course) hire lawyers (only the best, of course) and law makers (only the sneakiest, of course) to get them the best tax shelters in the universe. The fight, though, should not be with the Upper Class, but rather with those sneaky law makers, our slick elected officials who allow these crimes to propagate against the fading Middle Class, against the broadening Lower Class, and even against the trust anyone could have for their own stinking-rich neighbors.

That's okay, if it's only a few who feel this way, but it's not. There's a very strong majority of lost, 2D minds in this country. I get it, though. The desire for something-for-nothing is the want of all humans. It's as natural as sleeping -- but get off the oil-kick, b! It's just a skipping record!

"As soon as we stop bombing they come back, with even more strength, as the bombing creates more enemies than it can possibly kill. And they are fighting for their religious beliefs, for their way of life, and for their lands, their ground."

No, they only come back stronger when we back off and leave them alone for a while -- and we can kill them all, it's just illegal to do it. But if the courts of law are all dead, who’s to say?

"And as soon as the last plane flies away, they own it again."

Yeah, I like this one. They own it again. From which treaty? Somewhere in the 1950s? The 1850s? The 89BCs?

-- "Holy Land, Batman! Don't you get it?!" --

As for the US not fighting, we're fighting all over this country, as well as in distant nations where the US has lost value, all due to Obama's great master plan for his foreign relations agenda -- whatever that might be. Yeah -- well, Red-Line this!

"...expending ordnance, dropping huge bombs which have a huge kill radius – every man, woman, child, goat, dog and cat..."

And? War is the indiscriminant killer, remember?

If that ordinance hits the twisted, hooded, holier-than-thou gunsel aiming his ordinance at me, at my family, at my friends, as well as at our troops, I really don't care how he's taken down. BTW, I feel the same way about cop-killers. How about that? They've hit us once with an international murder in the Empire State. They hit us hard, and have been trying again and again for a repeat performance. It can be done, it was done, and it so happens I don't like it. You can pretend it was someone else, but that doesn't change the facts.

Now, if "every man, woman, child, goat, dog and cat" want, but are not financially able, to get out of the obvious line of Allied fire, then they should do something a bit more immediate, like getting rid of the twisted, hooded, holier-than-thou gunsel who keeps making them and their families a piece of the target.

It’s easy to know where to start, b. It starts at home with our own children. Education and devotion. The IS knows this, for that's where their recruiting begins, at home. Their education is a bit different from ours, though, more like a class on Reichdom. My solution is to win this war, and if to do so requires a devastating strike, then let it happen. We have stored ordinance no right-thinking man, woman, or child should ever have dreamed of developing. Shock and Awe? Only if someone who might have seen it survives the hit.

Meet my beast, and I live with him daily. I have no trouble hitting the switch, but I keep it controlled.

So, what've you got? We can't win? That's it? That's your strategy? Give up the fight and bow down to the Prophet, while the twisted, hooded, holier-than-thou gunsel standing behind your kids hacks off their heads -- and then yours? Wow. You would have been a great morale-booster for Britain during the blitz -- but then that was probably all about the US getting its grubby paws on all that gleaming German oil. Along with carpet-bombing their cities, we did keep hitting their fuel dumps.

**End of Rant**