Lol, calm down, dude.  I hate all races equally.  I'm giving an extreme example to show how extreme our support is for Israel.  I mean you NEVER hear anyone in our government say anything bad about Israel.  EVER.  Is that normal?  Should our relationship with any country be like that?  Its essentially the same kind of groupthink that got us into the recent financial crisis.  Everyone in the room was saying the same thing, and no one was allowed to disagree.

I'm just saying that the responses we get from the talking heads on any issue involving Israel is always horrendously slanted towards Israel, whether or not Israel is in the right.  And this doesn't even reflect popular sentiment that accurately, or at least seriously masks some people's disapproval of Israel's actions and our past history with Israel.

This article can explain it better than I can:

Dem leaders out of step with voters on Israel's attack on Gaza

A new Rasmussen Reports poll -- the first to survey American public opinion specifically regarding the Israeli attack on Gaza -- strongly bolsters the severe disconnect between American public opinion on U.S. policy toward Israel and the consensus views expressed by America's political leadership.

Not only does Rasmussen find that Americans generally "are closely divided over whether the Jewish state should be taking military action against militants in the Gaza Strip" (44 percent to 41 percent, with 15 percent undecided), but Democratic voters overwhelmingly oppose the Israeli offensive -- by a 24-point margin. By stark contrast, Republicans, as one would expect (in light of their history of supporting virtually any proposed attack on Arabs and Muslims), overwhelmingly support the Israeli bombing campaign (62 percent to 27 percent).

It's not at all surprising that Republican leaders -- from Dick Cheney and John Bolton to virtually all appendages of the right-wing noise machine -- are unquestioning supporters of the Israeli attack. After all, they're expressing the core ideology of the overwhelming majority of their voters and audience.

Much more notable is the fact that Democratic leaders -- including Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi -- are just as lock step in their blind, uncritical support for the Israeli attack, in their absolute refusal to utter a word of criticism of, or even reservations about, Israeli actions.

While some Democratic politicians who are marginalized by the party's leadership are willing to express the views that Democratic voters overwhelmingly embrace, the suffocating, fully bipartisan orthodoxy which typically predominates in America when it comes to Israel is in full force with this latest conflict.

Is there any other significant issue in American political life, besides Israel, where citizens split almost evenly in their views, yet the leaders of both parties adopt identical positions which leave half of the citizenry with no real voice?

More notably still, is there any other position, besides Israel, where a party's voters overwhelmingly embrace one position (Israel should not have attacked Gaza) but that party's leadership unanimously embraces the exact opposite position (Israel was absolutely right to attack Gaza and the U.S. must support Israel unequivocally)?

Equally noteworthy is that the factional breakdown regarding Israel-Gaza mirrors quite closely the factional alliances that arose with regard to the Iraq war. Just as was true with Iraq, one finds vigorous pro-war sentiment among the Dick Cheney/National Review/neoconservative/hard-core-GOP crowd, joined (as was true for Iraq) by some American liberals who typically oppose that faction yet eagerly join with them on Israel.

Meanwhile, most of the rest of the world -- Europe, South America, Asia, the Middle East, the U.N. leadership -- opposes and condemns the attack, all to no avail. The parties with the superior military might -- the U.S. and Israel -- dismiss world opinion as essentially irrelevant. Even the pro-war rhetorical tactics are the same, just as those who opposed the Iraq war were said to be "pro-Saddam," those who oppose the Israeli attack on Gaza are now "pro-Hamas."

There are certainly meaningful differences between the U.S. attack on Iraq and the Israeli attack on Gaza (most notably the fact that Hamas does shoot rockets into Israel and has killed Israeli civilians and Israel is blockading and occupying Palestinian land, whereas Iraq did not attack and could not attack the U.S. as the U.S. was sanctioning them and controlling their airspace). But the underlying logic of both wars is far more similar than different: military attacks, invasions and occupations will end rather than exacerbate terrorism; the Muslim world only understands brute force; the root causes of the disputes are irrelevant; diplomacy and the U.N. are largely worthless.

It's therefore entirely unsurprising that the sides split along the same general lines. What's actually somewhat remarkable is that there is even more lock-step consensus among America's political leadership supporting the Israeli attack on Gaza than there was supporting the U.S. attack on Iraq.

Hate all races equally, what does that mean?

The very statement "frying up babies to make latkas" is just ignorant, as no American would stand behind Israel (or any other nation) if such a thing were to happen to any people.  With that being said, despite your intentions, it doesn't give you the right to use racially provocative language to provide a gross exageration of America's support for Israel.  As I stated before, that very statement has been made by anti-Semites since the middle ages as an accusation as to what Jews did to Christian children, and hence gave Christians false justification for the murder of Jews, so for you to throw that statement out there is unacceptable.  You dishonor my murdered ancestors by making such statements, so you'll just have to forgive me if I take offense to it.  I do hope we are clear on this matter now.

As for the article you posted, it's irrelevant to me.  I think it's well founded in this forum that I am a conservative, and my party of choice (Republican) supports Israel as I so desire.  If the voting bloc that votes for the Democrats is unhappy with their party support of Israel, then it's on their shoulders to make a change within their party, not mine.  So instead of griping to me about the Democrat's support for Israel (that you seemingly see as unjustified) then do your part to reign in their support for your position if that is your party of choice.  Why are you complaining to me, a Republican, about a party that I don't vote for anyway?

As for your first part.  We are on the internet.  Chill out.  1) I'm not serious 2) If people took what everyone said on the internet seriously then the murder rate in this country would be much higher.  When I say I hate all races equally I mean that I am an equal opportunity discriminator.  I just dislike everybody.  I am white, and I can't stand a lot of white people.  The males especially are often ignorant, overweight, xenophobic, and in the South they are inbred.  There are plenty of black, Hispanic, and Asian people I can't stand too.

Honestly, I probably have less gripes about Jews than just about any other race/ethnic groups.  I get along great with Jewish people.  Most of them I've met have a good sense a humor.  Nothing bad was intended, and my reference was more to American Psycho than any kind of ethnic slur (funny character who makes a bad latka joke not involving babies).  But you shouldn't get upset about what people on the internet say regardless, even if it is racist.  Give someone a keyboard and their IQ drops in half.

As for the second part, its not just about what my party does, I'm just talking about the lack of social dialog in general.  Hell, I hear more debate over whether or not 9/11 was a conspiracy than over whether or not we should support Israel.  When people don't openly discuss something and there are no dissenting opinions, it usually leads to a bad result.

Hate all races equally, what does that mean?

The very statement "frying up babies to make latkas" is just ignorant, as no American would stand behind Israel (or any other nation) if such a thing were to happen to any people.  With that being said, despite your intentions, it doesn't give you the right to use racially provocative language to provide a gross exageration of America's support for Israel.  As I stated before, that very statement has been made by anti-Semites since the middle ages as an accusation as to what Jews did to Christian children, and hence gave Christians false justification for the murder of Jews, so for you to throw that statement out there is unacceptable.  You dishonor my murdered ancestors by making such statements, so you'll just have to forgive me if I take offense to it.  I do hope we are clear on this matter now.

As for the article you posted, it's irrelevant to me.  I think it's well founded in this forum that I am a conservative, and my party of choice (Republican) supports Israel as I so desire.  If the voting bloc that votes for the Democrats is unhappy with their party support of Israel, then it's on their shoulders to make a change within their party, not mine.  So instead of griping to me about the Democrat's support for Israel (that you seemingly see as unjustified) then do your part to reign in their support for your position if that is your party of choice.  Why are you complaining to me, a Republican, about a party that I don't vote for anyway?

You have a point, why should you totally care about the opinion of a democrat.

OK so than I'll aim at you with the fact I;m a republican and oppose Israel in every way. It is an out of control country like Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc that should be considered a threat to the USA and peace in the world rather than an allie that we should blindly support and turn the other cheek to war-crimes like killing innocent civilians without care and when questioned somehow try to justify the unjustifiable. It is like trying to find a justifiable reason why the PS3 could possibly sell more than the Wii. 

                                   ------------>Training<------------

Every few years you need to train your troops in REAL combat, regardless of how much training they went threw, nothing compares to real life situations.

And when I say troops I mean all the troops, not just the one with Guns, but the ones that communicate, the ones that runs the systems, more importantly the internal systems. Also the weapons, every week 100's of new weapons are made (not just the ones that go boom) and they need to be tested. So the gather the best up and then use them in a real combat situation.

Like War Games the movie, how do you know that person will push the button? You need to test the troops as real as possible, and what better way then the real thing.

You lose some troops in the process.. but thats causalities of war, right offs, or cut list if you will..

It's a sad way to look at it but it's been going on sense the beginning of time, passed on generation to generation.

Somebody's been playing too much MGS2.

And a society who would go to war just for training is beyond reproachable, though it does seem to me America just gets bored every decade or so and tries to get into a war.