arifsali, this is why G*d invented bicycles I'm glad you're getting used to paying that much... I sure am having a hard time getting used to it (at least mentally), but I don't think it has much to do with today's explosion.

But after seeing the lunacy out there, not unlike the palestinian lunacy - I agree that staying there under the current approach would be a mistake. We should cut the levels of troops, move north and keep a watchful and extremely trigger-happy eye on the rest. Iran moves in - let'em have it very clearly and dramatically. Let the Iraqis work it out, fight it out, whatever... they don't deserve the gift the...

arifsali, this is why G*d invented bicycles I'm glad you're getting used to paying that much... I sure am having a hard time getting used to it (at least mentally), but I don't think it has much to do with today's explosion.

But after seeing the lunacy out there, not unlike the palestinian lunacy - I agree that staying there under the current approach would be a mistake. We should cut the levels of troops, move north and keep a watchful and extremely trigger-happy eye on the rest. Iran moves in - let'em have it very clearly and dramatically. Let the Iraqis work it out, fight it out, whatever... they don't deserve the gift they've been given... Perhaps if US did withdraw to a degree - they'll be less apt to help al qaeda continue to ruin their country, but then again - unlikely, eventually leaving a bare land and then... get this! - once they totally kill each other, with all this land - the palestinians would be able to move into that land and Iraq will become the new Palestine... oh, wait... that won't work... they're killing each other as well... oh well, it was a plausible theory in the beginning anyway.

P.S. It's a good thing we don't depend on the Middle East for resources needed to run computers... otherwise we'd have to pay an increasingly large amounts for using Clipmarks... OUCH!