[airspirit]

Why on Earth did someone reincarnate this cesspool? For chrissake, people: just let it die.

Fact #1: The US went in. We won. The war is over except for minor craziness here and there that fall more under "law and order" than combat situations. There's no point arguing whether or not we should go in because we did it.

Fact #2: Now that a source of mideast terror funding is gone, it will be easier to attempt a peaceful resolution of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. I doubt there will be as many wannabe terrorists willing to blow themselves up if they aren't getting paid obscene amounts of money to do it, and that is just one less thing to hold up the peace process. The results of this, however, are speculation: some people are just stupid.

Perhaps this will lead to better peace and stability in the region. That's my bet. It also helps that Arafat isn't the head of the Palestinians anymore ... that dude was nuts. Perhaps his replacement will see that peace is a better tool than terror to get what he wants for his people. If the conflict in Israel can be settled, I would suspect that many of the problems over there will greatly diminish.

At any rate, there is no point sowing hate and discontent here by bumping these ancient threads so lets just cut it out already. Lets move on to more important topics, like fast cars, fast computers, and fast women (boobies!).