Bob, these animals still use the term "Crusader" interchangeably with "Infidel." The Holy Roman Empire still sticks in their stinking craws.

All this business about the "Cradle of Civilization" and all that crap. These people have had 15 centuries to get sewers in the ground and they haven't been able or willing to get it done. Civilization? I don't think so.

Our supposed allies, the Saudi's, wouldn't have an Army or an Air Force without western contract technicians. They drive the stuff until it stops then call an infidel to give them another one and fix the one they broke. You've heard all of this before.

I think we are in the initial stages of a cataclysmic "holy war" for which radical Islam has been preparing their "faithful" for centuries. The Pope knows it. He just made a highly unusual statement about the new EU and Catholicism. He's saying to the imams, "Bring it on, boys." Unfortunately, this time, they have and they will again bring the war to our soil. I suspect our kids will be dealing with them when we're gone.

Maybe we can give the bastids California? That'd learn 'em. Except Carmel, of course; I sorta like Carmel.

Bob