Actually, "common sense" is very common & lacking in any sense.

Submitted by kman (United States), Mar 6, 2009 at 01:45

You have a good grip on the state of affairs amongst the Palestinians, however, the Palestinians voted in Hamas as their government.

People just don't bother to think, but get swept up in loud mouthed rebel's rhetoric & grandstanding. There is no courage behind much thought in most of our world today and that includes the Middle East. Israel has courage by necessity. But, even there, Liberalism is gaining a popular footing where appeasement is trying to take over as a response to Arab & Islamic aggresson and hate.

When people try to follow the rule of the inanimate world of following the path of least resistance, they will shoot themselves in the foot. Liberalism is greasing the skids for the sake of its own glory, and that is caving to the aggressors of the world. Prostitution by any other name ...

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