Hello Bob,   
      
   >LL>The only question that remains is whose troops are going   
   >LL>to be sent to do the job?  Will it be the Arab League?   
   >LL>Will it be NATO?  Will it be the good ol' U.S. of A.?   
      
   >BK>Or neither.   
      
   >LL>Israel could nuke Damascus, setting Hezbollah and Hamas in   
   >LL>a rage. Not to mention the rest of the Arab world.   
      
   BK>Not to mention the rest of the non-Arab world.   
      
   Nobody cared what Arabs did in Arab lands before the Jews   
   were allowed to have a state in Palestine.  So why should the   
   non-Arab world be up in arms if Arabs decide to retake what   
   has always been their own land?   
      
   >LL>NATO never wants to shed its own blood.   
      
   >BK>Nato was in Kosovo right along with us, was in Afghanistan right   
   >BK>along with us, we in Bosnia before we were.   
      
   Where were those NATO ground troops in Serbia?  None to be found.   
   President Clinton was forced to conduct a war entirely from the air   
   in order to convince the Serbians to leave Kosovo.   
      
   >LL>obliterated.  As for Afghanistan, the French were chicken   
      
   BK>Were they?   
      
   Did French troops capture or kill Osama bin Laden?   
   Did French troops capture or kill Mullar Omar?   
   Nah.  Those French troops left everything up to GWB   
   and his Republican Guards to find and neutralize   
   those madmen.  However, GWB somehow took a wrong turn   
   and never did find those stockpiles of WMD that he   
   knows exist in Iraq...   
      
   BK>They had more troops, more ships and more planes   
   BK>there then the Brits did.   
      
   Those French troops did a heckuva job in Indochina and Algeria.   
   And those British troops did a heckuba job in Afghanistan so much   
   so that the Afghans kicked their ass not once, but twice.   
      
   >LL>and the Germans knew better.   
      
   BK>Did they?   
      
   The Germans took on the world twice.  And lost twice.   
   Which makes them two-time losers.  At least the British   
   kept things local in Afghanistan rather than taking on   
   the whole world.  And yet it is the British who lost   
   an empire, and not the Germans.  Go figure.   
      
   >LL>The Brits were stupid as   
   >LL>usual, going so far as to send a prince,   
      
   BK>That was one of the better things they did.   
      
   Too bad they didn't leave him there.  But then, had they done that,   
   the tabloids would have had nothing left to write about.  So maybe it   
   was best they brought him back home.   
      
   >LL>and the Russians had already learned their lesson the hard   
   >LL>way.   
      
   >LL>Twice we did that.  And they still could not get it right.   
   >LL>Had to save them yet a third time by taking care of Serbia.   
      
   >BK>Uh, and just why did that involve saving Europe?   
      
   >LL>Europeans love to play dominos.  It is their favorite game.   
   >LL>So we sent Fats Domino over there to take Blueberry Hill.   
   >LL>And the rest is history.   
      
   BK>Huh? Ok, never mind.   
      
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