Yes, perspective, perspective. I'm sure from someone's perspective any action can be justified.

The question you should ask is when did Yassir Arafat every do anything that resulted in a lasting peace? He certainly had opportunities, but he always ended up walking away from them. A lasting peace would have made him irrelevant.

...and it's even more infuriating that the lefties forced us to abandon practical forms of energy (like nuclear) some 30+ years ago using the same fear tactics that they are now using to get us to waste our time on windmills and solar farms. Speaking as a conservative, and for most of the conservatives that I know, I'd love to see us move in the same direction as China. Just please, please don't try to scare me with stories of how the sky is falling. Talk to me about limited natural resources and the need to create reliable, abundant energy for a growing population and emerging societies, and I'm listening.

Ha! I remember the column "According to Webster" or something like that. I also remember the class I took on Computers and Society. I still have fond memories of the book "Hackers." Those were the days...

Wrong! Two things went into effect in September. 1) no pre-existing conditions for children. 2) kids up to 26 must now be covered on their parent's plan, regardless of their marital status.

1) has caused many insurance companies to drop child only insurance packages. 2) has caused rate increases, because of the additional associated costs (like paying for a pregnant daughter, who is married).

Which produced a way better healthcare bill than what we got from the Democrats. Do you seriously think that the current bill is not going to cause an increase in premiums? Your "a)" and "b)" are going to happen at a much more accelerated rate with the current bill.

e.g., "Obamacare" looks an [i]awful[/i] lot like "Romneycare".

"Romneycare" is what will keep Romney from ever getting a Republican nomination. It is viewed as an expensive failure, that he just can't seem to explain away.

And yet you have no fear of making those statements in a public forum...

Please don't blame NetBEUI on Novell. That is Microsoft's atrocity. Last I checked, they still use that crap tunneled in TCPIP.

Perhaps you meant NCP?

Some of the results of leaving south Vietnam defenseless:

-North Vietnam took control of South Vietnam in less than a month.

-100's of thousands went to "re-education" camps. 10's of thousands of them died after their release

-Around a million boat people died at sea.

-Phnom Penh fell to the Khmer Rouge and 2 million died in the genocide that followed.

A lot of people died in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. Many people feel that a militarily weak Iraq could yield similar results, because it would create a power vacuum in a historically unstable region.