When you consider the same team took Sam Bowie over Michael Jordan....

Because you watch a lot of Dodgers baseball, that’s how you know that Puig stares the pitcher down after being struck out. Really? I watch a ton of Dodgers baseball, and I have no idea what you’re referring to. But hey. It’s up on the screen, and other folks think you made a point. Good on you!

Terrorists are ideologues willing to die. Most times (say, in Israel) the one attacking is just a pawn with a death wish and a want to be a Martyr. The only person who can negotiate with that individual is the one strapping the bomb belt to that indivdual’s waist. And what do you think that person thinks?

LA is flyover country? As you fly to Hawaii, maybe, but even those flights from the East Coast will have to stop at LAX for fuel.

Syria and Hezbollah are not minor thorns in Israel’s side, which is enough for me to consider your armchair analysis less than apt.

Maybe learn something about the relationship between Israel and Arab countries outside of what you think is keeping up to date? When you realize that Palestinians were all Middle Eastern Jews before Israel was created (because the Arab citizens of the Mandate didn’t want to be associated with Jews back then), then…