[Jeff Higgins]

David is right. It's time to do one of two things, both of which require more courage than we can muster. Either choice is driven by the realization that we cannot help those people because they do not want our help. The ones that claim they do only want it to gain the upper hand over their traditional foes, and they are willing to suck up to us and pretend to be nice long enough to get that help and entrench themselve in power. These people are no more than animals, absolutely lacking in everything that defines "civilization" on a social level. They are barbarians. Always have been, always will be.

So the choices are to either nuke the entire area into a glass punchbowl or to simply leave. I vote for the latter. We have done our best to help. Many, too many, fine brave young Americans have paid dearly in an effort to help. These people have demonstrated beyond any reasonable doubt they are beyond help. Let's get ourselves out of their crosshairs and let them go back to killing each other. As long as they keep it to themselves, fine. We'll stay out of it. Next time they try their ***** here, we start crossing whole cities off the list, a couple hundred megatons at a time.