Posted on 02/21/2015 10:14:09 PM PST by Art in Idaho
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani blasted President Barack Obama, saying in a recent speech that Israeli Prime Minster Bejamin Netanyahu is a “a man who fights for his people, unlike our president.”
Guiliani’s comments came during a Feb. 13 speech on countering Islamic extremism at the Iranian-American Community of Arizona.
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If Netanyahu perceived Iran as an imminent threat to Israel, he would attack immediately using his own country’s armed forces (already generously subsidized by the US). The fact that he doesn’t do so, but instead tries to sucker the US into launching a war against Iran with no help from Israel, lest he lose Israeli troops killed and take a political hit, indicates that he sees confrontation with Iran merely as a war of choice.
Israeli intelligence does not agree unanimously that war with Iran is the best course; some past intelligence chiefs oppose it. Neither is it a matter of “the Jews.” Some Jews favor war with Iran and some don’t. It’s a good bet American Jews have less desire for war with Iran than American Christians; certainly that was the case with the Iraq war.
A war that toppled the regime in Tehran would be bad both for the US and Israel. There are only two possible outcomes for such a war, the same two that confronted us with the Iraq war.
1) Eventually giving the country over to an even worse gang of Islamic fundamentalists. This is what happened in Iraq and this is what would happen in Iran despite the fantasies of those who see the mirage of a viable pro-Western secular opposition. Unless we committed ourselves to...
2) Permanent occupation. And we obviously aren’t going to do that, any more than we did in Iraq.
The least bad realistic alternative for both the US and Israel is to deter Tehran with nuclear and other weapons. Deterrence works with the lunatics in North Korea; it’ll work with those in Iran. Despots living high on the hog don’t risk their own necks; they leave that to the little people. This principle dictates that Iran won’t risk all-out war, let alone nuclear war, with Israel or the US, though they will predictably harry us with terrorism, although we should remember that toppling the regime in Tehran would predictably make Iran an even worse hotbed of terrorism, as toppling Saddam set the stage for the rise of ISIS. Ah, the Mideast! Where there are no good alternatives, only less-awful ones.
Current headline on Drudge claims Rudy’s recieving death threats.
Absolutely, he is not weak, he is strong and resolute..for Iran
If you feel hopeless and discouraged, watching this video will help you feel better for a little while.
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IMVHO, not a good ideA. What Rudy is saying about Obama has long needed to be said by a national figure, but it is not the battle we have to fight.
We agree with Rudy, but he is highlighting yesterday's problem. That's good. But, Obama is yesterday. It is like yelling at a wayward child. Righteous anger is just the beginning of the solution.
Where the yelling might do some good is at the other wayward child in the room, the spoiled rich kids of the GOPe who are just as guilty of the destruction of the Republic because it couldn't happen without their enabling help.
The Republicans hold a majority in BOTH Houses of Congress, and 30 state houses and governorships. Why aren't they as angry as Rudy?
Obama is not the candidate. He is the President until 2016. Our anger has to be directed at OUR representatives, where we have the ability to make a change. Instead of controlling Obama, our Congress seems poised to sell us down the river. Imagine the results if one (1) "Congressional Voice" had just said what Giuliani said! That this righteous anger is missing in the Republican Party is hardly Obama's fault. He is behaving in accordance with his Marxist beliefs. Unfortunately, the other party, ostensibly our party, is NOT behaving in accordance with OUR beliefs, which they told us they shared! Against Obama and the Democrat Party, what do we have to offer? Anger is not enough.
Please focus, my people.
And there's your problem: it's the "Republicans", and not the "Conservatives".
As long as that maintains, the Uniparty is in power, and the course of the ship of state is headed straight for the reef.
Rudy has the spine, guts, and gonads that no one in Congress has.
**Axelrod***
A RED diaper baby. His daddy was a card carrying member of the US Communist Party.
Rudy is mistaken.
Obama fights very hard for his people.
They just aren’t the American people.
Yeah. Exactly.
Where is our military? Are they going to let this coup continue?
Axelrod dusts off his Alinsky, 'Rules for Radicals' and rights a hit piece. Alinsky rule 5 and 12. . yeah, yeah David. . go back to bed. .
Thanks for posting. A great resource.
Here's another: Commieblaster. Lots of research links.
Yes, blatantly forged, and the MSM just dropped it. . The Border mess, NO Border Fence. . invite to illegals, keystone pipeline, appointing commies throughout the bureaucracy. . will take several generations to clean this mess up. . if we have a chance. . and . . you name it.
OMG, I remember. . yes, very similar. Man, do we need a new Reagan!
"If present silence in view of the unspeakable Islamic atrocities the world has seen of late does not rise to impeachable offenses, I don't know what does. Unresponsiveness in the face of barbaric behavior is indistinguishable from complicity. In the famous words of the First Megalomaniac, That is not who we are."
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