Eddy, do you not think it possible to fight for property rights as well as care about what is happening in the middle east? It was I who was saying that the control burns are a good thing in my opinion. You can point out the smoke problems, but I could also counter that with worse scenario of an out of control fire which does more than fill the air with smoke.
War is an interesting beast, and behind each war, there stands politics or religion, and often, both. We can say that the war about whatever, but in the big picture, our troops have sacrificed so that we can have freedoms, even to argue over such things as a simple right to sit peacefully on the beach. At least we are somewhat making an argument for American rights and privileges rather than discussing what Howard Stern says on the Jimmy Kimmel show. That topic would belong in the Lounge.
Now what is it exactly that you want me and BMBV to do to make Bush and Congress stop spending billions of Yen, I mean US Dollars on the war, and get our troops out of the middle east? Don't think that the current war doesn't weigh on most American hearts, in some form or fashion.