War games

[WmLambert]

According to Reuters, we are holding the largest military exercise in a decade with many allies in the Middle East.

Funny that many of those allies are officially at war with Israel, which we hold as our strongest ally. Israel is not invited to the war games.

The training is all about urban warfare. I wonder if there will be any surprise IEDs.

[ghoullio]

I was duped. I got excited for a minute because I was watching "War Games" earlier this afternoon. I forgot how awesome that movie was when I was a kid. No doubt some Hollywood screwhead will try and reboot it.

Anyways.

Yeah, Israel. They are our strongest ally and thus don't require exercising with on this kind of scale. We do exercises with Israel all the time. Try not to get too uptight about this. Israel will either defeat it's enemies and grind them to dust or they will be destroyed. Either way, the Middle East problem is solved and we can continue to buy our oil with whoever is left standing.

Remember, WWI was started because all these piss ant nations had secret pacts with one another and they were bound by pieces of paper to sacrifice the best and brightest of their youth for 4 years. Millions and millions of men died because of the great and noble "allied cause". No doubt it will happen again and we will all march off to war in defense of our "allies", but to me, the only allies we need are to the North and South of us. Everyone else can suck a bag of dicks.

[Green]

How far north and how far south?

[John L]

On a related subject, I somehow wound up listening to Hannity in the afternoon yesterday. I think I was in the car and the radio was turned on Rush Radio at the time. He was talking to some fellow, who interviewed Reverend Wright. The jest was that the good reverend stated that when the Bamster came to his church he was ignorant about Christianity. Wright had to teach him how to fit in, and somehow realign him from all the influences of Islam. After all, if he was going to be a successful community organizer Islam would not be a good resume enhancer within most of the Black Community.

In other words, Barry was a good little Muslim before he met the Reverent Wright, according to the interviewer. And naturally in the world if Islam, Jews are not held very high in consideration. You know, even as dumb as the Jews in the US are, you'd think they would still have enough sense to see through all the smoke screen he keeps laying down. Those Eastern Euro-Jews are just plain Dumb, when it comes to picking a party and leaders. I'm surprised they weren't all killed off by now.

But the ones over there in Israel, they aren't fooled by all this. Good for them.

[Palladin]

Aside here, but, watch this and know why manifest destiny was SO influential here. I expect this explains why the northerners were willing to fight in 1861-1865, everyone back then must have known how awful it was to live in a split continent:

BTW, the time lapse is in the upper left, events in lower left:

http://marccortez.com/2012/05/16/epic-ti...of-europe/

[ghoullio]

The vid has been pulled because of copyright infringement...

[Gunnen4u]

Probably preparing for any conflicts with Iran. Many ME countries fear Iran, to even include Saudi Arabia among others.

[John L]

The vid has been pulled because of copyright infringement...

I went to the Atlantic magazine where they had the video, and it too has been pulled.