armygas

Agreed, its called 4th generation warfare and the concept is currently taught to every soldier during initial training.....and we are not "laying or holding seige" (do you know what seige means?) Explain to me how we are laying or holding seige? I wish we wouldn't be there in twenty years, but I would be willing to bet my house we will be....any takers? Actually, if you remember, Rumsfeld wanted the small, counter-insurgency war (like you speak of) that was quick and decisive, look where that plan landed us. Things may have been different had we went in with the build up that we had in 1991. We would have had better control of the major cities and the insurgency would not have initially gone unchecked.

Again your soothsaying finds you speaking through your orifice used for the expulsion of methane......

I do hope the Iraqi Army can stand on its own very soon........... but I will bet anyone that there will be a substantial number of U.S. Forces in Iraq for at least the next twenty years. So have fun debating the politics of this (talk about it until your blue in the face), whatever you views are the fact is we are there and we are going to stay there. For those of you who understand defensive tactics, it is one of the United States' most strategic "listening posts" in the world and the draw-down of Korea and Germany allows for a shift of forces. Any takers on the bet?

...........and who are you? You know only what has been presented in the media, have you ever been there? I think not, yet you speak as if you have the answers for everything. You really believe its just that easy, but again you are wrong. I have never killed anyone as I am an anesthetist I have seen the effects of war and would you like to know who the insurgents really are? They are syrian fighter, iranian fighters, fedayeen fighters...... that is who is getting targeted and they have killed thousands of innocents and then use innocents as shields when we engage them. Please get your facts straight. So enjoy your comfortable life and the fact that you have no idea of what is happening as you have no expertise on the subject. If you want to talk politics, thats great, but when you spit spiteful untruths at the U.S. Military then you overstep your knowledge base. Politicians dictate the mission and the soldier carries it out. The mission is to stabilize Iraq and that hasn't happened yet and like it or not it won't happen for some time. Even after that happens, we won't leave (remember Japan, Germany, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Bosnia...we are still there and it makes good strategic sense to keep those outposts but you have no sense of strategic planning).

What makes you think that removing the troops there is going to gain those goals? As a military person, its much easier to finish a job than to have to return to a hostile area. You are forgetting that we had the opportunity to finish this in 1991 but did not and Iraq became a larger problem. So based on history, if we do not finish the mission correctly then our children will have a much larger battle to fight. Let us finish our mission, its a tough one but a necessary one.

I have read many of your posts and you need to learn alot more than just organophosphates............. your rememberance of historical facts is very poor as well. For example, why would we have support from China and the Soviet Union during the Vietnam War? We were in a Cold War and they were our adversaries. You ask people to "research it yourself" put really you should do that before you present a point because it makes someone look foolish to be discredited.

I think you overstep your bounds when you speak of the military, what exactly is your experience or is this alot of "hand-waving". Where are you getting your information from....or is this your opinion?

Really? Can you really compare the two wars? You should read these comments on the similarities of the two wars as a start. "American deaths were a mere 418,000 citizens" for WWII http://www.opinioneditorials.com/guestcontributors/doaks_20061028.html Also, http://blog.washingtonpost.com/earlywarning/2006/11/world_war_ii_and_iraq_its_more.html "In Iraq, the vast majority of Americans hardly notice we are at war. The two wars though do reflect the snapshots of our society. World War II was fought in the day of saving bonds and rationing: Our forefathers spent what they had. They scraped the bottom and sacrificed to earn security." You cannot compare apples and oranges.........

The U.S. won't be leaving anytime soon we will be there at least 15 years, think of all the places we are still in...... Japan, Korea, Germany, Bosnia, etc, etc. The current admin had nothing to do with those places, once you gain a strategic outpost you don't easily leave it.

If you knew then its not a success.... Most nations have high speed-low drag, ruthless successful covert operators (do not believe otherwise). If I had to pick the baddest of the bunch I would have to say the Israelis. Hand to hand training......I would go to a MMA dojo.

Why don't you all do two things: 1) Do a pubmed search on "global warming" (http://www.pubmed.gov) 2) goto the IPCC's website: http://www.ipcc.ch/ That way you will see that there is roughly the same amount of evidence presented by both sides (the doomsdayers and the others).

Appears so, http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/health/mosquitoes/malathion4mosquitoes.htm

If we don't win this battle, our children (not us) will face the consequences. As a parent I will fight like hell to keep that from happening.

Just be advised, the reason North Korea is so dangerous is because Kim Jong-il has stated on many occasions that he will fire a nuclear weapon on South Korea at some point before his death. We are in a pact with South Korea to the point that any attack on their soil is an attack on the U.S. Also, I have been to Iraq twice. Should we have went.....who knows but we are there now and leaving would create instability that would have to be dealt with by force by our children. I would rather finish it now than to have that happen. It will take awhile longer to ensure a solid stable Iraq but I am willing to continue to serve in that capacity so my children won't have to worry.

Man, I hope you didn't really mean that. If we were in that type of regime then we wouldn't be able to have the ability to discuss "the slippery slope".

Uhhh, I was responding to the point that suggested people got cancer "only" b/c they inherited a "mutated" gene, which is clearly not true......

Any basic neuroscience textbook will have this information

DNA proofreading is not perfect thus an individual can have a self mutation throughout his/her lifespan so it one doesn't need to be born with the mutation to acquire it later in life, and the more a cell replicates the more chance of a self mutation which is not corrected by intrinsic DNA proofreading mechanisms.

There are several epigenetic influences that are being discovered as well.

I would respectfully disagree with you, if the rise was linear than I would say you are correct however it has been exponential over the last 20 years and if the trend continues, 1 in 5 children will be affected by the year 2051. A recent study looked at the environmental genome database and found at least 135 possible genetic links with over 5300 genetic loci and this study was in a very high impact factor journal. Also, why would NIH put so much effort towards this disorder if they did not feel it was truly on the rise?

Our son was diagnosed at age two with ASD (more specifically PPD-NOS) and he is six now. ABA therapy has been the only thing that has worked for him.

Are you sure that opioids directly inhibit GABA? I don't believe that to be correct. I do agree that they may indirectly inhibit the release of GABA but they do not act on the receptors themselves. Also, the sigma opioid receptor has been discredited as an opioid receptor recent consensus is that it is not an opioid receptor. And I have been doing anesthesia a long time and have never heard of the Tau receptor in opioids. There are various Mu, kappa, and delta opioid receptors...is Tau a newly discovered orphan receptor?

I would argue that if you live long enough, most (if not all) people will get some form of cancer. In men, prostate cancer is a prime example, if you live past 80 you should expect to have to be treated for it as you PSA levels rise.

Absolutely, activity-dependent plasticity.

Actually, neuronal plasticity is widely accepted, dendritic spines form and retract according to experience so yes you can "program" your neural networks with experience. Synaptic formation and axonal sprouting is a huge area of research. Neurons are not stationary the will guide themselves to the optimal conditions which can change daily. Neurogenesis and apoptosis occur well into life.