If you want to help a country do so with U.S. Taxpayer money BUT PLEASE don't lecture them on their culture and how they must increase the tax on their wealthy. Stop the payments to Pakistan and let the ax fall where it might. No doubt the Pakistani army will take over again, the people will be pleased, the rich will pay against their will, and a bunch of civilian government crooks will be shot. That's what they do! But PLEASE let's not lecture others on income taxes that we are ourselves having a problem addressing.

A declaration of war by a country does not mean that military troops have to be involved. It makes the efforts official and it can act with whatever means it has at its disposal and it can be ruthless in so doing. It can also act with utmost speed to make all media and populace subject to war time controls such as limiting free speech on Al-Qaida matters, eliminating their web-sites, inspect the mosques, and suspending habeas corpus. Maybe we ought to have the guts do the same, and add the Taliban as well.

Gaza is what it wants to be. Any political entity is what it wants to be. It can be at war or at peace. If it is at war than it could well be blockaded and turned into a prisoner of war camp. If it wants to be at peace, it could flourish with blue water ports and unification with the PLO for an independent Palestine. But it cannot have both. Gaza's government that does not recognize Israel as a state is saying to Israel: I want your land and your wealth that you have created over the last 60 years. Well, how would you reply to that?

Even Britain's Chamberlain knew enough not to invite Hitler to London for a lunch at a fish and chips joint hoping to impress him with how good and homespun the Brits were. It is the mark of an immature President to think that Medvedev's concern for Russian interests worldwide can be reduced by buying him a cheeseburger.

"The leaders snuck away for a bite to eat at a popular hamburger joint across the Potomac River" "snuck away" ??? "The people applauded" ??? Does the writer expect us to swallow such a terrible piece of journalism? It used to be a time when journalists got and reported the facts...secret service convoys? Checks for weapons? Rehearsed applause? Really!!!

Any engineer will tell you that in the search for new solutions, such as very deep sea drilling, mishaps will occur. Statistical probability will not go away, even if the drill platform was checked and given an OK to do its thing by the U.S.. Therefore, it is a matter of fair share to allow BP to compensate the onshore commercial victims, but not to be further placed on trial for each incident. BP has been paying taxes for many years and I am sure that the U.S. can expend some of that money collected in order to close this incident. If that is not the case, there will be no commercial investment in any new large scale technology or infrastructure that could face a terrible accident while being perfected.

The closer you were to the Big Bang source (theology not science) the more dense was the matter that became less dense with time and spread. There is room for science and faith (dogma) in all of what we see out there. We are not smart enough to circle with undisputed facts both science and faith (dogma).

You must be a Democratic plant posting here trying for responses. There is no other answer as only the extreme uneducated and stupid can make those comments. A patriot you're not! All the patriots I know are reasonably educated to love their country and discuss things with their heads instead of with their bile.

The euro may fold but certain hard currencies in Europe will replace it. Americans are still enamored with Europe's tourism offerings and they will rush there again. That is, until the teen and young adult demographics in the U.S. will no longer favor citizens of European ancestry and its culture and that may be sooner than one thinks. So, Europe better hurry up and welcome the dollar coming in through commerce and tourism while it can.

Many questioned why Jews would support such a party and such a President. I think the answer lies with the concept of charity (Mitzvah) in Jewish culture. The Jewish people, over the years, must have decided that Mitzvah on the grand scale (not a small amount to a person or a small organization) is best done by the Government. So they pay taxes, and the rich Jewish people do pay quite a bit, and they allow the Government to do the "charitable" work that they could have done individually.

As the Democratic party is seen as the giver to the lower social strata, or the unfortunate, at the macro level of giving (social engineering from all our taxes) then it becomes visible as to why Jewish people vote Democratic . All this on top of the natural attitude toward Liberalism (and thus political safety) from a group of people who have looked over their shoulder for persecutors for millennium. I think the above is the main reason, with the fact that Truman made Israel possible maybe secondary.