Years ago, a mentor of mine taught me this idea. "Right from wrong is not a hard decision to make, you can teach a 4 year old child not to go in the street. The problem with politicians is not right from wrong, it's who they owe."

Consider the hand in hand walks the Saudi Prince and GW Bush had on the ranch and the deep bows of reverence Obama offered to the same guy, what does our progressive government owe the Saudis and by association Islam?

It is obvious to me that Obama does not make decisions on American ideals and interests. My compass tells me he makes decisions on his understanding of the world stage. i.e. he really wants to be President of the World. He wants to be liked. Any successful person can tell you fear of what people think about you is a sure path to failure. That's another argument. My main thrust is if you enter a negotiation with a world view rather than US interests, you will be 1 or 2 steps behind the other fellow representing his nation's interests. Look at Ukraine, Syria's line in the sand, Libya's revolution, Benghazi, Cuba, Iranian sanction, Iranian negotiations, you fill in your own. We are positioned for a subordinate role in the world that may take generations to overcome. He calls it leading from behind. He in Ohio we call that "following"!

If he's not one, he sure leans their way. Must come from his formative Muslim schooling.

Glad to have that information. Now I know why I don't have any qiratts. Just off the top of my head, that's BS.

Army '66-'70. OCS '67, artillery then Bliss for HAWK missile training. The same all expense paid trips but never got to Europe. Got out just as the military started raising the pay and benefits. I wish I'd stayed in.

The love of money is the root of all evil.

http://www.islamicconcern.com/dogs.asp

http://islamqa.info/en/69777 about 1/3 down

Thank you. I was pretty sure that I remembered something but couldn't bring it to my feeble gray matter.

It seems like the whole world is going to hell in a hand basket. I feel like I grew up in the best this country had and has ever been-post WWII. I lose sleep at what I see happening to the U S in todays world.

That comes from a widely accepted interpretation of the Qu'ran. Dogs are considered unclean by the Muslims, and though they are generally unclean (sniffing urine and poop?), I own a dog myself. A qiraat is an ancient form of money.

What's a qiraat? Where did that information come from?
I'm in a lot of trouble I guess along with millions of other dog lovers around the world.

All good answers. I'd even wondered if we fought so that we'd maintain customers for our industrial complex. Dwight David warned us of them.

I wonder where the British had their airports and ship yards? Where did they build their Spitfires and ships?

How much time have to served in what service, where and when?

Just so that you know, "Whoever keeps a dog that is not a dog for hunting, herding livestock or farming, two qiraats will be deducted from his reward each day."

The reasons that the US has been in more wars and conflicts than other nations:

1) a failure to remain consistent with the principles of the Founding Fathers;

2) a foreign policy more geared toward altruism than rational self-interest in recent decades;

3) a failure to be converted to Islam;

4) jealousy and envy by those who wish they were the USA;

5) a failure to realize that most of the places we have become embroiled in the last 50 years had nothing of value to exchange for the value we were providing;

6) a misunderstanding that US politicians thought that those in other countries might actually appreciate being liberated;

7) a failure by all three branches of the federal government to force themselves or each other to constrain themselves, both legally and financially;

8) The politicians owe more of their political war chests (pun intended) to defense contractors than to their voters. Finally,

9) The US government does not check its premises.

An excellent though grizzly account of the Beslan School Massacre can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beslan_scho...
It is a non-biased and comprehensive account of those events carried out by Islamic separatist militants. The following is a sample:
The Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov immediately denied that his forces were involved in the siege, calling it "a blasphemy" for which "there is no justification". Maskhadov described the perpetrators of Beslan as "madmen" driven out of their senses by Russian acts of brutality. He condemned the action and all attacks against civilians via a statement issued by his envoy Akhmed Zakayev in London, blamed it on what he called a radical local group, and agreed to the North Ossetian proposition to act as a negotiator. Later, he also called on western governments to initiate peace talks between Russia and Chechnya and added to "categorically refute all accusations by the Russian government that President Maskhadov had any involvement in the Beslan event." Putin responded that he would not to negotiate with "child-killers", comparing the calls for negotiations with the appeasement of Hitler, and put a $10 million bounty on Maskhadov (the same amount as put for Basayev). Maskhadov was killed by Russian commandos in Chechnya on 8 March 2005, and buried in an undisclosed location.
The following people were named by the Russian government as planners and financiers of the attack:
• Shamil Basayev – Chechen rebel leader who took ultimate responsibility for the attack. He died in Ingushetia in July 2006 in disputed circumstances.
• Kamel Rabat Bouralha – British-Algerian suspected of organizing the attack, who was reportedly detained in Chechnya in September 2004.
• Abu Omar al-Saif – Saudi national and accused financer,[154] killed in Dagestan in December 2005.
• Abu Zaid Al-Kuwaiti – Kuwaiti and accused organizer, who died in Ingushetia in February 2005.
ELSEWHERE:
August 10, 2014|9:38 am
National spokesman for Iraqi Christians and Chaldean-American businessman Mark Arabo said the "evil" being carried out by ISIS militants in Iraq now includes shocking beheadings of children, and he praised President Barack Obama for authorizing an intervention in the crisis Thursday.
"They are systematically beheading children, and mothers and fathers. The world hasn't seen an evil like this for a generation. There's actually a park in Mosul that they've actually beheaded children and put their heads on a stick," Arabo told CNN's Jonathan Mann last week.
"They've marked the red stamp of death on Christian homes and basically saying we know who you are and if you come back, you will get killed. That's why we're saying this is a Christian holocaust within our midst and the world community cannot turn a blind eye," said Arabo. "They are absolutely killing every Christian they see. This is a genocide in every sense of the word. They want everyone to convert and they want Sharia law to be the law of the land."

Lately I've been watching One American News (OAN), especially Ledger and Amato (sp?). I agree with them on most issues so naturally I see their vast intelligence.

I've had the same worry about my scalp. I went to a dermatologist who told me that it wasn't agent orange. I knew I'd never been around it to my knowledge, but he gave me some relief anyway. It does seem like much of the world just hasn't figured out that we are at war. A religious war, but just as deadly.

It just dawned on me that I've never read anything of AR's that had to do with war. My guess would be that she'd be very against the draft but all for volunteering (be in the military). I don't know where she might stand on wars in general. My guess would be against. It's hard to be your own man in the Army.

I'll bet that would cause a few Muslim headaches. I'd be willing to bet that some troops still are and just not advertising it.

I just don't see Bush the lesser going to war to get revenge for his dad. I know that others do. For whatever the reason, I think we should have gone after Afghanistan. I never have been able to understand why I wasn't called for advice. As of now I don't see that we've accomplished much either place except spend billions and getting thousands of our fine young men and women killed or maimed. I've often thought that the U. S. probably has a history of being in more wars and conflicts than any other nation. I've come up with several reasons but no proof for any of them.

He doesn't show a vast military knowledge much of the time. I guess they don't teach that in community organizer school.