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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Freedom Fighter who wrote (109196)	9/20/2007 11:27:06 PM
From: Knighty Tin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

If we withdraw from Vietnam, what is to prevent the Commies from taking Thailand, Malaysia, Taiwan, South Korea and Singapore? The Domino Theory has always been nonsense. There are non-US reasons why the radicals will not have a free hand. Turkey is a major power in the Islamic World and it is fairly civilized and secular. (Unless you sell drugs, as the goof in Midnight Express found out) As the Greeks have often discovered, Turks do not take crap from nut jobs. India, a nuclear power with a huge army, would not like a Pakistan run by radicals. China and Russia will support a rational, peaceful Iran, but not an Iran that is trying to eat up the Islamic world. And Iran desperately needs their support. Egypt is a strong, responsible Islamic country that would not like to see a rival, Shiite superpower on their border. In other words, this area has checks and balances that work, unless we have an idiot Texan out using force majeure to unravel them as quickly as possible. Remember, the Shiites are a minority in the Islamic world, and the majority has no qualms about slapping them down if they overreach. They won't do that while American troops are mucking up the area. Saddam was very weak. Why didn't Iran take it while he was still in power? Because too many other Islamic states would find that untenable.

To: Freedom Fighter who wrote (109196)	9/20/2007 11:40:29 PM
From: Knighty Tin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Horse racing. The good news is, I won today's "Showvivor" contest at Sam Houston Race Park, beating 53 other players. The bad news was, 4 of us survived and tied for first place. In this contest, we had to pick a horse to show in the first race at Louisiana Downs. Then, if you win that, you survive to move to the second race. And, on and on until you hit the 10th race. This sounds easy, but 53 people did not make it to the 9th race. On the 9th race, I got extremely lucky. I picked the fastest horse with the top jockey. Near the finish, I saw the top jockey strangling my horse, and he finished fourth. I had #5 and they came in 3, 8, 6, 5. But then I saw why my jockey was strangling my horse. #8 had smashed him against the rail and the jockey was slowing the horse to make certain neither he nor the horse fell down. The Inquiry lasted about 12 hours (may be a slight exaggeration), but, finally, the #8 horse came down and #5 showed. Ooooh, baby! It turned out that 3 of the final 4 had picked #5 and the other guy picked #3. He would have won it all if #8 had not been disqualified. He was not a happy camper, but, if #8 had not mugged #5, he would have certain beaten #6, whose record looked like he shouldn't have been in the race at all. So, sucking out, we went on to split the prize money, as the 10th race was strictly on form. It wasn't much, but it didn't cost anything, and I bet Louse-E-Anna, anyway. It was fun to be recognized by my peers as a guy who can suckout to become a champion. <G>