Frankly before we let people into our country we should give them a course on our traffic lawns. For example, alot of european students coming into the country are operating under one set of laws, and the people with the cars are operating with another set. I think someone's eventually going to get hurt.

Situation in the Middle East

One thing is if Israel doesn't have to beat Hazbelah, they just weaken it so the lebanese army can take over....

Discipleship

I wonder as a christian body are we producing disciples. Evangelism is nice, but if people aren't becoming mature in there spiritual walk, what's the point? Then there is the pont about not having enough people to do the work....

What could be done differently

I had a discussion with one of the polish students on what they would do differently. Here are some of his suggestions;

• convince the shakes were not bad guys
• plan better for the war in iraq

Now on the face of it these are not bad suggestions, however the problem is implementing them. For example, how do we convince the religious leaders we are not bad guys when we are the ones they blame for things. We are the people they can get angry at. They can't get angry at the other people. I told him I don't know if we will ever be able to convince them we are not bad guys.

Another thing is, he thought we out to have gotten the guns in Iraq when we invaded. Since they are not being used to kill our soldiers. I countered by saying Iraq could have turned out differently. I think he was surprised when that a small country like Iraq could beat us. I told him, are we big, yes, are we powerful, yes, but we are not invinceable.

One question he had for me is why we didn't go into Iraq the first time. We should have gone in and gotten Saddam the first time. I think he was surprised when I told him we didn't want it too look like a blood bath.

Foreign students

In old Japan, nobles used to send some of there children to the royal court. If they tried to rebel... well.... It was a very effective measure to stop rebellion.

Really, foreign students that come here to work are like that. Because a country probably isn't going to go to war with you if alot of kids are in your country.

How we could help influence other nations view of us.

Well, here's an idea. When a foreigner is in out country we treat them very nicely. Then they go back to there country, they say how great guys we are. Then maybe they will want to come back.