Do you think we should keep trying to help out the ME? If there were a way to get out but keep our national security very much in mind would you support that decision?

I just don't think that they are ready to live in "our" time. I'm not saying they should shrug their religious obligations, but I don't think that they are very logical about it.

As far as the australia thing goes, well, I'm all about different people coming in and lending their cultures to the greater collective, and I think that certain freedoms should be protected, but I think that we as westernize societies should have a low tolerance for radical Islamists in our countries. Yeah, they have a right to say what they want, but me and my family and you and your family have a right not to be scared shitless that some ass hole, who thinks we're all godless infidels and says that his is the right way and that it is the goal of his church to subjugate us to sharia law, is going to set off a bomb at our local hang out.

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Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds. I am not a sacrifice on their altars. ... I owe nothing to my brothers, nor do I gather debts from them. I ask no one to live for me, nor do I live for others. I covet no mans soul, nor is my soul theirs to covet.

Ayn Rand, Anthem.