Maybe the problem was that people lost touch with the basics. A tendency to be prone to excesses and live in a fantasy world seems to be a Russian demon that the Communists feared. And maybe they were right that capitalists were a greater threat than communists. Russian capitalists, that is. Look at them today. Russian born Sergei Brin founds the company Google, and it is engaged in all kinds of illegal activity. The Russian capitalists are setting new standards of greed and excess, with their huge pleasure ships and homes in the French Riviera, ad nauseum. And it seems the West is following that example, and CEO's are getting richer and richer. And now the whole system is faltering everywhere.

Maybe all North is advocating really is just 'quiet diplomacy". Maybe I misunderstood this column and he is not hoping we get in another way now in Syria. But it sounds like he is. The Cold War service is appreciated, but I don't know about all these recent conflicts in the middle east. We need no more of them. UN troops, yes, usually when massacres occur these days, the UN troops are nearby looking the other way, or cowering for cover. But 300 troops from anywhere are not enough in any case.

Of course I know he did what you say, and is doing so now, and this is why we have this fragile peace threatened, part of the reason why I am against any more fighting in the middle east unless there are good reasons that are not a bunch of bs. Do you think BHO is my buddy, or are you covering my back by pretending you think I am? I don't need the latter protection, and even more so I don't like anyone saying that pothead punk is my buddy.

No problem, Robinsky 2. Obviously I am an American and I wish to protect the American way of life and also to avoid putting good American lives in pointless wars. Now I'd like to know who you are?

Good column, except I don't think BHO and his cronies were the least bit surprised about the outcome, and fail to appreciate the need for all these columnists to pretend that they also don't think so. In fact, we all KNOW these types of disasters ARE the agenda, and this is all part of the dream of a pot swilling black communist punk, sitting with his fellow potheads in their choom wagon.

I looked at the video and do think the foreigners present did seem awkwardly offended by Ms. Woodhouse's comments, but the people on the street are placed in a difficult position when the government does not protect it's borders so this is bound to happen. So I recommend the offended foreigners sue the British government for causing this incident, and so similar scenes don't occur again, demand that all immigration be stopped, persons there illegally be deported, and persons there legally shall fully assimilate, and then demand the government pay them compensation for their pain and suffering for having to hear a common citizen's mindless rantings, which otherwise never would have occurred but for their inept governance.

Rose41, just state who you are, and what you want. And what your tribal or religious or national or other agenda you represent, and why it deserves anyone's support, or get lost. Folks, this all is a game of smoke and mirrors, and what we need is the simple truth of what is going on. No more games.

We need open discussion on these wars in the middle east. War is a serious business. There have been too many and all for bad reasons or lousy diplomacy. Ambassador April Glaspie gave Saddam Hussain an OK to invade Kuwait, then we had to fight a war to push him out. Later, the war invading Iraq over WMDs was a huge waste of lives to find WMDs that did not exist. The Islamic Brotherhood in Eqypt was never a friend of the West, so why should the US have support their uprising in Egpyt. In Lybya, the leader Ghadaffi, made peace with the West and renounced terrorism, so why did the UN and US support Al Quaeda controlled rebels against the his government, when Al Queda is the recognized enemy? How about some answers? .

"We do0n't know which rebel groups are the good guys...our friends...in Turkey and Iraq...could find out...what we need right now is some quiet diplomacy with our friends... and prayers that whatever we do won't leak." If it hasn't even leaked yet what the fighting is all about, it would seem the rebels are the same as in the "rebels" Egypt and the "rebels" in Libya, foreign radical Islamists, encouraged and supplied by the UN and the BHO administration and it's supporters, such as Google. Let the Syrian government kill the invading bastrds there so we don't have to kill them here.

I don't think a pothead driving around town seeking bliss in a "Choom Wagon" could ever possibly relate to this poem, much less be the commander in chief of all our armed forces. http://theerant.yuku.com/topic/50276/-The-Choom-Gang-#.T8OgW8V_jsZ