[Deathstar 80]

I forgot to tell everyone, but I was watching Fox News a few days ago and I saw a segment where I think it was a retired general said that Iran was probably making threats of World War III in order to discourage anyone (more specifically, us) from helping Israel.

Also, I wanted to tell everyone about President Ahmedinejad's speech at the United Nations a few days ago. I didn't watch his entire speech, but I read some of his speech. He didn't talk much about the United States or Israel like he usually does, but he did talk about the twelfth Imam quite a bit.

Our forces are just fine, and would do great in any war I think. They're just tired.

A little fun fact for you all...we, the U.S., are hardly ever allowed to go on an operation in Afghan without Afghan forces. That's not all that bad...what is bad though, is our military isn't aloud to sneak up on a target. We have to assault directly. Things like that are the main reason our military is so tired.

I'm not worried a bit about our ability to wage war...our military can do it, and can wipe anyone on earth out. What I am worried about though is losing more troops and the constant deployments they've endured over the last decade. It's been tough on our forces, especially the most important, special operations. That's our strongest weapon I think, and they're tired...but they can and will do anything our civilian leadership asks them to do, and do it better than anyone else. Just don't want to lose more young people, and I don't think we should get involved in conflict unless we are absolutely forced to.

I completely agree with you vundy33 with this. But we can't avoid war when the people who want to kill us are trying to build a nuclear weapon. If we set "a red line" as Prime Minister Netanuahu mentioned in his United Nations speech, it would greatly discourage Iran from trying to build a nuclear weapon. And if Iran continues to build a nuclear weapon past that "red line", that gives us just cause to attack Iran and prevents Iran from claiming "innocence" in the matter.

And by the way, I also wanted to add what I said about destroying the mindset of radical Islam. I've been thinking and have realized that it would probably be very difficult for Christianity to destroy radical Islam simply because it's difficult to try and talk to someone about the bible when they have been raised to passionately hate you and be completely ignorant in their own radical beliefs. Billy Graham talked about how there's a limit that an individual can reach in that if that individual sins enough, their heart becomes hardened enough to where the gospel has no effect on them and, therefore, they have no hope of being saved. It's sad to mention that, but I personally believe at least some of these radical Islamists are in that condition since they have so much hatred for others and they're so obsessed and closed-minded about their radical religion. Therefore, preaching the gospel to them would have little to no chance of converting them. I've never met a radical Islamist, but judging the "savage beasts" who are willing to kill others for their own religious beliefs, that's how I would judge them.