Israel suspending air bombing

Originally Posted by pgardn

Its not all about what the US gets. I wish we would do more in Africa. If you think everything we do should be done just to benifit our country, you and I are on a completely different page and the "conversation" need not go on.

I support Israel as an American citizen because it is one piece of land in that entire region where the people treat each other humanely. I believe in the rule of law, individual rights, and is a democracy. You dont like these ideas?

Costs a lot less money to make a dead zone.

OK. So lets say a Canadian terrorist group supported by the CAndian government starts lobbing missiles at where you live in NY. Just to kill civilians. You dont want air strikes immediately? BS.

Costs a lot less money? Why is it costing me any money? I am all for my tax dollar going to Africa or any country in the form of humanitarian aid, but why is billions, nearly 100 billion of US money buying a military for another country? Nobody can ever seem to answer that question. Is Israel incapable of raising taxes for their own military, or should the working class guy in america pay more taxes so Israeli's can pay less?

Stop with your hypotheticals, I live in the real world. These Stone Age people have been fighting for thousands of years and it will never end. Enough with using my tax dollar for a country that lives in the Stone Ages. It is bad enough my tax dollar is wasted in Iraq for nothing. Israel is the same thing, billions wasted for nothing.