Posted on 03/13/2009 6:26:13 AM PDT by nuconvert
Yup. Good point. While American diplomacy, such as it is, is put into the hands of Jimmy Carter-like “appeasers” ... What you have in reality is that Israelis voted heavily for a turn to the RIGHT. That’s 65%. An enormous number Obama can’t “influence” ahead. And, yes. Bibi Netanyahu is close to forming his government. Even if he asks for a two-week extension; the pressure is on Ehud Barak to LUST for the defense portfolio. And, for Avigdor Lieberman (still negotiating for “approval of diplomats) ... among other things. To watch sand slipping through his fingers. Bibi’s been fantastic at these negotiations, so far.
If you had to start the apocalypse, how would you do it? Here's one suggestion: start refashioning your administration, if you're president of the United States, as anti-Israel.It's that simple. You don't come out and say that, of course, but if you start appointing in strategic roles the sorts of people who espouse that particular insanity that expresses itself as an irrational hatred of Israel, you'll get the ball rolling. Because what that does is it shows all those countries that have institutionalized the hatred of Israel into law and policy that the US is no longer going to stand behind the tiny, eternal hotspot at all costs, like a great, big brother staring down bullies.
The deterrent to bullies, once removed, invites all manner of mischief. Bullies push, and test, and torment, and they never stop, until and unless they're stopped. And if the bullies have stated perennially, repeatedly, and unequivocally, their longing for the complete and utter destruction of your little sibling, there's no reason to expect them to stop, until....
If you're Israel, a) you're not stupid and b) you're not weak and c) you're gonna prepare to kick some serious ass because your tormentors are emboldened by the absence of meaningful reality-checks to their insanity.
Now, if you manage to do this in a time when one particularly loony regime is known to have the ability to make nuclear weapons, you just might get your Apocalypse.
It's easy, really.
Obama eats pig, and he is not even a good Muslim. He will Lie to anyone, and he is not particular.
We will never extricate ourselves from ME politics and its conflicts until we find a viable alternative to fossil fuels and stop pumping trillions of dollars into that medieval cesspool.
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