Wouldn't it be great: If we had a contest (war) with Palenstine, Iran, Hezbalah, and all the terrorist groups?

Uncle Wayne, I think this is a wonderful idea! I am voting for:

"Uncle Wayne" for president! :)

He most certainly is. Lieberman has always been an enthusiastic supporter of AIPAC. In fact, during the Congressional hearings with Gen. Patraeus's report on Iraq, it was Lieberman himself, not the pro-Iraq occupation conservatives, that brought up the subject of creating a third front in the War on Terror (tm) by unilaterally striking Iran. I don't think naming IRGC as a terrorist entity itself constitutes a "declaration of war," but it certainly helps lay the foundation for building a case against the Iranian regime.

While that is great idea and proven throughout history to work to win the hearts and minds of the people why do you call the children of Palestine children of Terrorists? Not all Palestinians or Syrians or Iranians, Afghanis (the list goes on of course) are Terrorist. And certainly not all of the Terrorists in the world (actually less then half of the known terrorist groups) are Middle Eastern or Muslim.

yeah but, then we would have people fighting to get certain countries that didn't need too much help or we would have people not wanting to take places like Haiti or someplace where there is basically no amount of help that would help. People are just all around losers I think for the most part and our sinfulness gets in the way of everything. I think maybe we would be just better off putting the poor countries leaders in a room by themselves and feeding them what their poor eat for a month or however long it takes them to cry "UNCLE"--hehehe.

Sorry, but I don't see any of what you say... Hezballah is resistance of Lebanon not terrorist, Israel has a part of Lebanon. While Israel called their attack in Gaza "Holocaust" and killed 20 children, was that an accident?

After Israel killed the leather Emad Mughnieh, Hezballah didn't replayed yet, but they will when Israel will start the war... not as Israel who started the last war in Lebanon just because of kidnapping 2 soldier to exchange them with the prisoners.

Just be fair, don't kill citizens because then your citizens will be too.

I'm all in favor of using WMA (weapons of mass amusement), myself. How about water balloons at twenty paces, followed by throwing marshmallow Peeps and jelly beans at each other until we all collapse in a giggle fit?

Then we could finger paint portraits of our country's leaders and make paper airplanes out of the pictures and toss them off the roof of the Pentegon. (The pictures, that is -- not the leaders. Although now that I stop to think about it. . .)

We could negotiate a peace treaty over Kool-aid and warm chocolate chip cookies, and the 'winner' would provide humanitarian aid in the form of balloons and kites and stuffed animals.

Now that's my idea of how to wage war. Grown-up people have fouled things up too long.

Last thing first: Yes, Jesus said that, and how well do we even do this as individuals? Not very well. It completely defies human nature to be kind when we are treated unkindly.

So, while we cannot get it right as individuals, how can we expect complete governments to?

And I'm okay with our US Constitutional form of government. I like the fact that our government has to fight to keep us safe from foreign enemies.

The problem is, altruism goes against 3.5 billion years of natural selection. We didn't evolve to be givers first, we evolved to be takers first, and when our own needs are satisfied, THEN we might choose to help others.

The only way we will ever see peace on this planet is when all resources are distributed in such a way that anyone can have as much of anything they want. In other words, we will never have peace.

That would be an excellent idea.

Nijg: Some terrorist organizations have already proposed similar deals. I wouldn't be surprised if we could get some of them to agree to such a contest.

"We can no longer afford to worship the god of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of hate. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path of hate."

Hezbollah won the hearts and minds of Palestinians and others through their great humanitarian efforts... I bet most Americans haven't heard about that... there are a lot of things the mass media doesn't cover...