Shame on you Israel!

When I was first informed of the situation, with mere bits of misleading information, my first impression was to blame Hamas for it's "wrong-doings". Although terrorism, however you may define it, is wrong and unjust it is still important to know the facts. A great example of what happens when people jump to conclusions; the Iraq War. The facts: The Israeli Palestinian seize fire was broken when Israel attacked an underground tunnel that Hamas uses to smuggle weapons into the country. Hamas was shooting rockets without explosion caps at Israel for a few days which is why America still supports Israel. Because Israel is fight "terrorists", no matter how ruthless they go about doing so, the United States will all ways blindly support them.

If you know me you probably know that I am critical of religion, religious organizations and the evil souls responsible for using religion to brainwash people into doing their will. This conflict is a great example of why religion is destroying us. On one side you have the Jews who basically ride on their holocaust trump ticket, which is one of the many reasons they are hated in the Middle East. On the other side you have the Islamic and Muslim extremists who follow a convenient interpretation of the Koran which states that you must perform a painful chastisement upon the western infidel. Your probably saying, "Now, Marc the holocaust was a terrible event that we cannot forget, so why not leave the Jews out of it?" Yes it was, which is why we must learn from that mistake, and obviously we haven't. The holocaust did happen and it was the greatest human error in recorded history, but with the Israeli Palestinian conflict its shows how the human race continues to repeat the mistakes of the holocaust on a daily basis. "But why are you still critical of the Jews, Marc?" Well, to put it as clearly as I can, because they are religious. Even though they are not a historically violent religion like Christianity and Muslim they are a religion non the less. I am not antisemitic when I say they are foolish to believe in a personal GOD. It's a fact that 90% of all wars are religiously based.

In all honesty, Israel actions are wrong and foolish and because the United States will all ways blindly support them they are given pass to do whatever they want in the Middle East. This is bad and is why I say shame on you Israel!

Nuclear holocaust can be funny!

To follow up on my previous post about nuclear weapons I recently watched an amazing movie by my favorite director. The movie is called Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb and it was released in 1964 by the genius director Stanley Kubrick. It stars Peter Sellers as 3 or 4 different characters including Dr. Stranglove whose character appears to be an oddball former Hitler supporter turned Nuclear informant for the United States government. This character really won me over and I think this is one of the funniest movies I've ever seen despite being about a taboo subject like nuclear holocaust. The synopsis of the plot is as follows in my opinion. "An insane general starts a process to nuclear holocaust that a war room of politicians and generals frantically try to stop." All in all I loved this film and I highly recommend anyone to what it.

Mutual Assured Destruction

I recently ran across this word in an essay written for the New York Times called "Elevating Science, Elevating Democracy". the definition of mutual assured destruction, or MAD, according to Wikipedia.com is "...doctrine of military strategy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two opposing sides would effectively result in the destruction of both the attacker and the defender." Could you imagine that? With weapons like the Russian Tsar Bomba out there we could virtually end our species overnight.

This is not the first time I've come across this word in my lifetime, however. While reading "When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism" which is a great book BTW. In it he mentions as follows ," Mutual assured destruction, keyword assured. Rest assured if you kill a lot of us we'll kill all of you." I couldn't help but chuckle at that.