Outside of looking for the WMDs I don't think the UN had anything to do
with the second gulf war. You may be confusing them with NATO. I don't
remember any Iraqi violations of the no-fly zone. Isn't the whole
point of a no-fly zone that if you fly into it, we shoot you down? I do
remember freedom fries. I stepped into a convenience store restroom
about that time and on the wall with the rubber machines and other
things of that ilk was one advertising freedom ticklers, as opposed to
French ticklers.
The Palestinians who lived in Israel when it was first formed are the
citizens I was talking about. They are treated pretty shabbily, but
they do have the vote and their birthrate is higher than the Israelis,
and by 2035 they may become the majority.
You know the Arabs never perfected the nation, so they just had this big
area in the middle east where they fought each other constantly before
and after the crusaders. The land where Israel is today was kind of a
backwater, it didn't have a strategic position or natural resources to
speak of and just went back and forth. I think the Ottomans made it
part of the province of Syria, and then the English and the French
remade borders after ww1, and about that time the European Jews became
interested in making it their homeland.
I don't know what the status of the Palestinians living in the west bank
is citizen-wise. Since Israel controls the borders it says who can
come out and who can leave. The Gaza strip is separated from the west
bank. Both were ruled by the PLO but then they let Gaza have an
election and they voted for Hamas. Those are the guys who are lobbing
the missiles over the border, God knows why, do they expect the Israelis
to capitulate over that?
Hamas still rules that godforsaken stretch of beach surrounded by
Israel, and Egypt on the south is not too crazy about them either.
I know this is all hypothetical, but if you were open carrying your fire
arm, that must mean the law allowed open carry and that would mean that
anybody else could open carry, so you would be walking gun-toting
streets. Probably most of these toters would be law-abiding citizens,
but just as sure some of them wouldn't be. And they might as well shoot
you as anybody else since everybody is toting a gun, and of course if
they were going to shoot you it would be in the back because nobody
wants to risk your quick draw. So how does that make you any safer than
if everybody, including yourself, is concealed carry?
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