Let's see ... he installed a democracy in Iraq at a cost of $1T that promptly elected a Shia majority that is now allied with Iran, I'd say this was our biggest foreign policy blunder in 50yrs. Even worse, it caused the unnecessary deaths of 4,500 troops and 20,000 wounded soldiers. He created one of the largest new and expensive entitlement programs that added $500B to our debt, medicare Part D. He tarnished the Republican brand so badly that someone with as little credentials as Obama was able to walk into the White House and do even more damage domestically.

Funny, it's not like Rahm Emmanuel is a right wing activist, actually I have to give him points on toughness for doing the right thing in the face of this predictable onslaught.

Saying that we should secure our borders does not justify GWB's disastrous invasion of Iraq. I cannot believe that Mona Charen slipped that one in their. By all means we should be selective about who we let into our country and it is true that we cannot get the Muslims to love us but why the heck was GWB trying to install a democracy in Iraq? With a Shia majority the outcome in Iraq was all too predictable.

We cannot get the Muslim world to love us and we should not even try to how can you justify GWB's approach of spending trillions of $ trying nation building in the middle east? All Bush's strategy did was to install a democratically elected Shia majority, pro-Iranian gov't in Iraq. We had to withdraw from Iraq because they asked us to leave, what else could we have done, stay their against their will and establish re-education camps to westernize them? The best long term strategy is a Ron Paul, non-interventionist foreign policy where we stop playing this fools game altogether. Both GWB and Obama are playing a fool's game.

Obviously, only loans should be paid back. If Geronimo is suggesting that aid should be reimbursed then he is off his rocker, there is no need to go into clever analogies. The difference between loans and aid is well understood. Btw stopping aid to Israel must be coupled with stopping aid to Egypt, Libya, the Palestinian authority and all of the other countries in the middle east that we are 'helping'. We don't throw this type of money around in south east asia and they are doing just fine without us.

You misunderstood Jim, I was referring to 'N-L' as being rude. OP means original poster, so I was saying, why so rude 'original poster'? N-L is a jerk.

Geronimo, I happen to agree with you, but I would also like to see the U.S. stop giving aid to the Palestinian Authority, Egypt, Libya, and all of the other middle eastern countries. The amount of money we throw around to arab countries exceeds what we give to Israel. Israel would be better off if we stopped throwing our weight around in the middle east. And yes, with a GDP of $300B they do not need our $3B.

I think that the estimate for oil shale production may be a little too rosie. I looked at the company's website and they left out or were a tad vague on a few details like, how much does it or will it cost per barrel of oil production. And how much water is required per barrel of oil production, they mention in situ heating but that generally requires some water. I'm not saying that these problems cannot be worked out but it has the feel of something it its early stages.

I'm going to read up more on the oil shale deposits, in the U.S. we also have a huge formation but for about 100yrs it has been off limits on public lands because it was deemed commercially infeasible. I wonder what method they are using to convert the naptha/bitumen into oil and at what cost. (Btw this is different from shale oil which is conventional oil trapped in shale formation that is extracted with fracking)

Why so rude OP? She is an Israeli, she writes for the Jerusalem Post, townhall chooses to post her columns here. If you have a beef, take it up with townhall, not Ms.Glick.

Oh, and I am neutral on this who land for peace vs harsh retaliation thing, that is your concern, I have a tough enough time keeping up with politics in my own country. All I can say is that I wish Israel and ultimately the Palestinians well in achieving peaceful co-existence.