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And people criticize the Iranian President as a religious fundamentalist, who is using his personal end time theology as a means to set up Armagedon.

I'm not opposed to the creation of a Jewish state, but the way by which this particular Jewish state was created and is sustained leads a bad taste in my mouth. When you look at the principles of peace and justice, and merely the idea that according to Christianity, in Christ there is neither Jew or Gentile.

Quite frankly, I wish the United States would take a more neutral role in the Arab/Israeli conflict. In my opinion, the Israelis are hardly an innocent party in this mess. They, knew when they chose to go into Israel that they were going to be facing a hostile native population, a native population that would regard them as invaders... The Israelis may regard there as actions as self defense, but I have a feeling that the Palestinians and the other Arabs feel that fighting the Israelis is self defense as well. In fact, I remember reading an article when there was talking of building a Jewish state in Palestinian. The then King of Jordan, went out and spoke against it. He basically said if Israel is built, we will regard it as an invasion, and we will feel that we have no choice but to fight you.


As for Iran, I don't necessarily think that if Iran gets the bomb, that it means they will necessarily use it. The Islamic Republic of Iran has never attacked another nation. They don't necessarily have a death wish. As for the Iranians funding terrorist groups and groups that are anti-US, I don't like it. But hey guess what, the United States funds similar types of groups.

As for Iraq, if the Iranians invaded Canada, I have a feeling that the United States at the very least would fund groups that would try to get the Iranians out of Canada. Because given the relationships between us and Iran, we would not want them on our border. Personally, I think in Iran you have a similar situation. The Iranians want the United States out, and they want the United States now. They do not want us surrounding them.

I don't like Iran, but I think that people are a bit irrational when it comes to Iran. I have a really hard time believing that the Iranians are going to nuke Israel. Why would they want to fight a battle they know that they cannot win, and that would annihalte them. They aren't dumb. It is far more likely that Iran wants nukes as a detterant against an attack from Israel, and/ or an attack from Pakistan.

Another thing, a person mentioned that perpetual war worked well for Rome, British empire etc. I'd like to point out that perpetual war and empire is not exactly congruent for a democracy. AT one time, the Roman state was a republic, it wasn't perfect democracy, but there was some representational government. But the more powerful Rome got militarily, the more powerful the miltary got, and eventually the Roman empire became ruled by a tyrant.

The British in many ways had to choose between their democracy/and their empire. Because after awhile, how could a so called democratic state rule places like India, undemocratically. Oh, we can have an empire, but at what cost?