gardenweasel.....the whole middle east is steeped in religious ideologies and traditions that go back centuries, the same as thier longstanding tradition of fighting each other....
Dump all the Casey's and dump all the money you want into fixing the middle east, no matter how many resources you want to waste the outcome will be the same.
I will agree with what you said about not all people of middle east descent being terrorists, and that a lot of them are peaceful, but I'm not willing to waste hundreds of billions of dollars to realize what we already know about the middle east, given the history of the area and the saga between the Israelis and Palestinians. They can't live at peace with each other, that's a fact proven by time.
Casey's death was a waste, sad thing is that our administration is willing to waste more American youth installing democracy in Iraq.....sending more youths to the cemetary won't change the outcome, and sending more people over there to die is like some degenerate gambler who digs a hole over the weekend and looks at the Monday Night game trying to force a play and win by chasing.
Let the arabs fight each other like they so desperately want to do, and forget about these egregious errors like trying to set up democracy in a land full of religious zealots.