Forget the Mosque

Understandably there is great controversy over the building of a mosque at "ground zero" in New York City.

But what surprises me is that there's no more heard, or being discussed over the sale of 84 F15 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, for $30 billion.

Granted they're being sold with no long-range weaponry installed. But isn't that like selling someone a gun and never thinking they'll find bullets for it?

I realize that that Saudi Arabia is an ally of the United States, but are we not even considering what the official national religion of Saudi Arabia is? That's right, Islam.

We (the U.S.) has been at war for nearly 10 years now, not with other governments, or countries, but with Islamic terrorists/extremists. Islam is not at peace with the United States, despite some liberal views, but would love to dominate the world, especially the west.

I can't imagine how/why anyone thought this was a good idea, and why isn't the entire nation in an uproar over this? If you give a bad dog enough rope, he'll eventually be close enough to bite. It's a shame to think that the next attack against the U.S. could conceivably be made with our own weapons.

$30 billion is a lot of money. But when you really think about it, given the unbelievably huge national debt, will that even be felt? Where will that money go? Do we need the money so badly that we're willing to jeopardize our own security?

Maybe the mosque at ground zero, as offensive as it is, is really just a ruse to take our attention off of the real threat.