Be careful what you ask for ...

Well, I hope the bleeding-heart liberals are happy. Give the Palestinians a promise of their own homeland and free elections and -- surprise! -- they put the militant-extremist group Hamas in power, the same group that is sworn to nothing less than the extermination of the state of Israel. Ariel Sharon must have had a premonition this was going to happen and that's what gave him his stroke.

There are two possible solutions to this whole mess -- the Palestinians, Iran and Syria -- but neither is socially or politically acceptable. We could just tell Israel to take care of the situation militarily and turn our heads the other way. Then, if the Muslim countries get involved, we have Israel's back. Or, we could just tell the militant countries that any aggression will be met with a nuclear response. The bet here is that all it would take is the threat of nukes and they would back down. After all, we're the only country on earth that has used the nuclear option before and it has to be in their minds that we just might be crazy enough to do it again.

Either way, problem solved.