[Dylflon]

The middle east will never cease to be a tricky situation.

The Middle East is like that aunt with a really big mole on her face who shows up to family dinners. Nobody wants to really talk about it or look at it, but there's no way you can't notice it.

Key problem: Muslim ideals are different than ours. Sure, most of them just want the things we want: a job, some money, a family, and to enjoy their lives. But of course you have the extremists. Now, the extremists make up a small percent of the Muslim world. But with about a billion of them, a small percentage still makes up a pretty large number of people. Their religion does preach peace but it also preaches hatred towards the infidels (i.e. us guys).

Now my belief has always been not to mess with the bastards. They are so backwards in most places that no good can come of us marching in there and telling them that we're giving them what they want. When the U.S. leaves Iraw, there's going to be some Iraqis who will be pretty sore about being occupied.

Now, their religion speaks of a holy war between them and the infidels. If you know how fundamentalists work, they see these prophecies and then they try to fulfill them. With such a large number of them, it's easy to get a mob going over a cartoon. By the way Denmark, Muslim rule #1 is to never create an image of Muhammed. Way to go, guys. We should be focused on not fueling their fires.

You can't really just go to an Eastern country and install a western democracy like it was planting a seed and then expect a tree to grow out of their coarse, hot sand.

I can't say I have any answers to this dilemma, but I do know that I'd rather not be in a religious war with the biggest damn religion in the world.