IS is definitely something all civilized countries need to be concerned about; now that the U.S. has (un)officially entered the conflict the crisis in Gaza may soon be pushed to the side. Given the situation regarding the thousands of Kurd refugees stranded in the mountains it's hard to imagine the U.S. standing aside…

Thanks for the honest assessment, I can't reply to it all of it but I'll make some points:

There are places in the U.S. (deep south) where their traditional religious views frighten me; my impression of places like Gaza and most of the surrounding Arab states is that they are like these places in the deep south except they're crazy and will kill you as well... am I wrong? You obviously have greater…

Regardless, if you think the U.S. earned 9/11 because of "imperialistic" activity around the world you're severely lacking in historical perspective. Please try a book of history or two (and, no, Chomsky doesn't count.)

Maybe Hamas should build some bomb shelters instead of tunnels and he wouldn't have to stand out in the open like that.

No, it just makes you a self-loathing moron.

"Middle East will be peaceful again"

I'm happy your family has the courage to be an exception to the rule.

Dishonest and evasive answer. If you know anything about Gazan culture you know that nothing resembling Western tolerance would be a part of their state and a homosexual or any LGBT person would be lynched in minutes if they dared to step out in public (not to mention how those of other religions would be treated.)…

Sorry can't see you up there on your moral high horse. You might also want to read a book of history or two on 20th century history... but then again why bother? Just stick to cheap moral grandstanding and name calling; seems to be all you have.

Would homosexuals be welcome in your state?

If they don't even have an army, then why would Hamas fire "toy" rockets (those must be the kind that don't kill people, I guess) into Israel know the response it is going to provoke?

Those could be called instances of murder (if they were deliberately targeted), not genocide. If the Israelis wished to commit genocide against the Palestinian people it would largely be accomplished by now. Do the math yourself only 2000 people out 1.5 million in 2 weeks of "carpet bombing"; the Rwandans killed 10x…

Tell Hamas to stop using them as cover for rocket launches if they value their citizens livelihoods.

That's seems to be the mythological motif that many people project into this conflict.

Really? The U.N. roundly condemned the invasion as a "violation of international law".

If Israel were carpet bombing Gaza there would be no Gaza left in a couple of hours. They're using the same technology and techniques that any Western force would use given the situation. And when you're fighting a force that wants to see its own civilians die then that is exactly what's going to happen no matter how…

So because they suck at killing Jews means Israel is obligated to go easy on them? The inevitable number of civilian casualties in these conflicts is not unknown to Hamas either (unless they have an absurdly short memory) and yet they continue firing their "useless" rockets into Israel... I wonder why??

Really? Not too familiar with the recent Iraq conflict then are we? Or how about Vietnam or countless others? Or maybe I'm wrong and you could correct me by giving me an example of a war/battle that was fought nicely and cleanly and only killed the "bad" guys...

There would be no reason to limit unmanned missions to 1 G of thrust, so times could be even better than that for probes. 1 G would be a reasonable limit for manned craft, but still, being able to get humans to the outer Solar System in 12 days or so? I can't even contemplate the consequences for our species over the…