If you decide that leaving Iran to pursue it's stated intentions is the right thing to do, then you cannot escape that advocacy should a catastrophe happen. Personally, that's not something I could live with.

Tell me then, Shooter, how do you live with the catastrophe of the Bush Administration, which you not only advocated but enabled through your own vote and perhaps donations? Can you understand the consequences of your own misjudgment? Let me list them off in case you missed it before:

• Empty treasury and enormous debt
• Destroyed US city
• Changed character of US government from a representative democracy to an authoritarian empire
• made us into a rougue pariah state
• monopolized our military in an unnecessary war that leaves us less able to respond to real threats

Those are the disastrous consequences of your misjudgment. If you really believed your "personal responsibility" rhetoric (which, of course, none of us ever imagined that you did), you would be down on your knees offering mea culpa to your fellow Americans whose country you helped trash, while busily making cash contributions to every charity under the sun that has a chance of cleaning up this mess.

But that's not you, is it?

They hate and envy us and we would be fools to listen.

Exactly!!

That is, that is exactly how I used to handle my conflicts back when I was 7. Wow, Anonymouse, you're either too young to be posting on a web site, or you never grew up. Please fill us in on which one it was.

But let's look closer at why you have been forced into such an embarrassing posture of immaturity.

I've watched my country's flag be burned on TV many times in my lifetime

By Iraqis, pre-invasion? Oh. Then why did we have to invade Iraq?

I've watched Americans jump out of burning skyscrapers, and the people who hate us celebrate that on TV.

And were those celebrating people Iraqis by any chance? No? Then why did we invade Iraq?

Of course, if it makes you feel any better (and surely it will), for every one of those Americans jumping out of burning skyscrapers, we have killed 1,000 innocent Iraqi civilians! Booya!!!! God Bless America!!!

I've read articles by AMerican academics who say that those people deserve what they got.

Lie much? You've read one article by one academic who said that, but you'd so dearly love to believe it was a whole army of them. This blatant delusion does not win many people to your way of seeing things, I want you to know.

And now for the question that you can't even really read all the way through, let alone answer, without wetting your pants:

Why does the US need to defend a heavily armed country like Israel against a non-threat like Iran?

However, I'm still waiting to be bemused by Anonymous' detailed explanation about how I and my military veteran siblings are all imaginary

And you will continue to wait. Anonymouse will never address your comment. Ever.

This is because of what I consider the defining characteristic of any neocon troll: his ideas collapse under scrutiny like a sand castle in a tsunami. Your detailed history of your family, complete with real names and dates, if far more than Anonymouse will ever be able to address. He's on to far more important issues, like how Ward Churchill is really the spokesman of us all, and is plotting to destroy the world.

Keeping to your role as a neocon troll, you of course couldn't answer my question. But, in order to tell yourself that you are not the coward we all know you to be, you had to at least pretend to answer it. Trouble is, for all your effort, you only managed to fool yourself.

Here was my question:

Why does the US need to defend a heavily armed country like Israel against a non-threat like Iran?

Here was you non-answer:

I think I'll stick up for the tiny democracy surrounded by a huge sea of illiterate Muslim savages that want them dead.

I didn't ask, "who would you root for in a war between Israel and the rest of the Muslim world?" Also, I clearly understand that you value a Muslim life at perhaps one one-thousandth that of a non-Muslim life. If you were a German in the 40s, you'd have felt the same way about Jews. But I didn't ask you whether or not you were a psychopath; that question you've already answered. What I did ask is (with added emphasis for the stupidest among us):

Why does the US need to defend a heavily armed country like Israel against a non-threat like Iran?

Care to try again?