London

Would someone like to post one of the hundreds of innocent villages that the U.S. has bombed?  (Can't you think of one, B?)

B: Uh, that would be your duty, since you've made the accusation...it should be easy for you, if, as you claim, there are hundreds...so?

Osama Bin Laden???  He got his start from the U.S. funding him a million dollars in Afganistan.  That is accepted even by the Bush admin.

B: OK, now, you're talking about the Cold War...uh, huh..

A sister pointed out that the U.S.'s funding of the Iraq war has caused proportional decreases in public health and welfare programs in the U.S.  Medicaid dollars were directly used to bomb towns in Iraq!

How many disenfranchised kids are going to turn their poverty and anger into hatred for the powers that be?  This is the most important question:  What future unibombers and Oklahoma City bombers are we breeding right here at home through poverty and neglect?  We don't know their names yet, but unfortunately, we will soon.  Unless of course we change things now by caring for our people and our neighbors as best we can through preventative measures such as health care and housing and food and work.

B: You make this sound like a zero sum game - a one pie for the world situation...it's not.  Freedom and prosperity have their own exponential power...I don't buy this one for one business...furthermore, the Medicaid recipients won't be able to enjoy any benefits once dead in a terrorist mass attack. Herjihad, you don't, for some reason mention that, at all.  Why not?  Is that not part of the reality?

I will totally agree with you that we need to take care of the poor.  Absolutely.  I just disagree with your cause and effect alarmism, especially as it disregards some basic elements of reality - like the Islamic motivated deat cultists.