My own view is moving toward supporting a direct American military imposition of a two-state solution, with NATO troops on the borders of the new states of Palestine and Israel. I'm sick of having a great power like the US being dictated to in the conduct of its own foreign policy by an ally that provides almost no real benefit to the US, and more and more costs.
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Aside from the sheer lunacy of imposing borders on a sovereign democracy, which also happens to be a close ally, what in Sullivan's increasingly deranged mind makes him think the prospect of US soldiers fighting to keep Hamas, Hezbollah and the rest from attacking Israel is going to work? Does he really think these groups are just going to turn over their weapons to us or let us confiscate them without a fight?
Considering the Palestinians hate us almost as much as they hate Israel I just don't see this as a viable solution, but hey that's me
Doubleplusundead - I'm sure someone thought that they were doing low-pay workers in Colorado a favor when they tied the minimum wage to inflation...
Effective Date Min. wage
1/1/2010 $7.24
1/1/2009 - $7.28
12/31/2009
Gotta love it.
Hot Air - Great news: Terrorist recidivism rate at Gitmo now 20%, up six points from last year
Two U.S. officials confirm to ABC News that the number of released detainees suspected of or confirmed to have returned to terrorist activities has risen to 20 percent. They would not provide the raw numbers on which the percentages are based. A U.S. official tells ABC News that the most recent report was completed in late December…
But wait I thought they all oved us now that we elected Barack. Did these guys not get the memo?
Slashdot - CIA Teams Up With Scientists To Monitor Climate
Well if we can convince the terrorists to move their training camps to the north pole everything should work out fine.
China's Growing Gluts -
... this could result in a destabilizing bout of global deflation as the glut of cheap Chinese goods drives down prices. Combined with another banking crisis--some experts expect 30 percent of new loans to go bad next year--the result could be both a slowdown in China and a global trade war.
It's no secret that I consider China a threat to the US so normally I would welcome trouble for them but we probably can't weather a Chinese economic collapse at this time.
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