This is where we part company.  Zapping terrorists in Afganistan and the terrorist sponsoring state of Pakistan is what needs to be done.  The innocent people suffering collateral damage need to question their nation's leaders as to why they provide safe heaven to terrorists, not the USA for taking them out.

I will support Obama on his terrorist-cleansing "crusade".  This is just what's needed.  At least he keeping his word here.

I go into the store and see a hundred flavored ice cream when that is reduced to one tell me. Now please leave if you hate it so much. But you like the hundred flavored ice cream option!

Wow, how deep, how substantive, how D-2-ish....

I see the other day, colored flavored ice cream in abundance in Iran as a way to thumb their noses to the US sanctions.

Are you serious, you would use ice cream as a yard stick to measure and compare the seriousness of American Poverty.

Bai for your information, in a poor country like Guyana you can go into an Ice Cream store and see the same. Get serious.

makes the point don't it? Iran is catching its ass from sanctions. And Iranians are not the Mullahs. Mullah rule is an anathema in even islam. Iranians, given their will to exercise their freedom to choose will be a flower to the region. If instead of the compulsion to build a bomb they focused on industry; the lights of Tehran and Tabriz would be a lure from Astana to Lahore.

But all of that is a waste of time to the premise that America is the dumps...compared to where? India....Beijing? Moscow? I dont waste time here since I am convinced the world can only experience progress if the engine of change is seated in the western philosophical sphere. Other than that you end up with a woman not wanting to show her face and  hiding behind a burka as presently happened in Guyana. That is not change we want or need or even necessary but a backward retrogressive and anti freedom step.

It is a metaphor dummy. But then you idiots are literal in all expressions

Sometimes you speak in metaphor, sometimes in tongues, sometimes in parables, and even then sometime in garbage, make up your mind dude

Most of the times in Malapropism (sp)

I don't agree with ASJ regarding the US.  There has always been poor, even in the richest nations, and it's true, it spikes in times on economic stress.  However, 7.5-8% unemployment is not overly bad given the crisis we had and the lack-luster Obama economic performance.  Could you imagine how much better had we have a true leader like Bill Clinton or Ronald Reagan?

 I lived through RR. It was hell, 18 percent interest rate. He spent us into the poorhouse building bombs. If Gorbie did not exist and there was a Putin instead both Russia and the US would be history if they did not blow up the world with the useless grandstanding. RR will never be a hero of mine. Gorbachev is my hero of the era. He had the courage to do what is right.

Then you must be a loser depending on Govt help.  I came here under Reagan and saw the improvements and progress.  The Interest rates were high due to the hang over from inflation under Carter.  Under Reagan and Clinton the US experienced the longest, largest economic expansion in recent history.  The winners won, the losers lost, as usual.

Gorbie, well who went bankrupt?

I came in during Carter and saw the rise of RR. I was actually a student in Meridian dorm when he was shot and ran down the street to see what the fuss about.

Why would I have to be a loser on government help if I say he is not my hero? You folks are truly astounding? I used my British passport exclusively until the 90's so you are just being an ass that any government helped me. I was not born here.

RR spend us into the a deep debt crisis that went over to bush and had to be cleaned up by Clinton.

I was referring to you comment about being driven to the poor house under Reagan.  True the military spending was high as the nation was in a death race with the USSR.  It was the USSR which collapsed, not the USA.  It's just funny how you see things.  Did he not take over the problem economy of Carter, turned it around, took the USSR into bankruptcy, the his terms were up and sure there were residual problems that Bush Senior took over and passed onto Clinton.

Under Clinton, the US benefited greatly through US-led globalization as the status of the only superpower and the US crushing on Iraq in GW1.  Don't you believe these events had any roots in the RR policies which convincingly defeated the USSR?

Dude, I am done for the day. The rain is gone, there is a hint of blue peeking out from puffy clouds in the sky so I am gone into t he wood to churn up some mud on my bike and come home dirty and tired. I am taking my rottie with me. He can hang for eleven miles of hills...that is 3 hours....goneeeee!!!!!!!