You know, I just fail to see what your problem is. The poster doesn't like Israel, as a country. That's his right. He doesn't want any aid sent there, or other nations I believe he said. He may actually think that Israel will wield the final prod that gets us to Iran, in their own interests.You're working hard to explain away what is obvious: he doesn't believe that a nuclear Iran, jam packed with terrorists who are flowing daily into Iraq to man the phony "insurgency," is something in the US interests to deal with. Instead, if the US goes into Iran, he believes it would be entirely about Israel's interests.
That's pathological. Either he believes that this administration is chock full of incompetent morons--or worse, traitors--or he imagines that Israel has some means of getting the US to act against its own interests in the interests of Israel.
There's no way to sugar-coat that in terms of disagreement with some Israeli policy or other. I disagree with plenty of Israeli policies, but I certainly don't believe that Bush is Israel's puppet. It takes an anti-semite, and a conspiracy kook to boot, to believe such a ridiculous thing.
You're working hard to explain away what is obvious: he doesn't believe that a nuclear Iran, jam packed with terrorists who are flowing daily into Iraq to man the phony "insurgency," is something in the US interests to deal with. Instead, if the US goes into Iran, he believes it would be entirely about Israel's interests. On the other hand, I'm not working hard to squeeze some Jew hatred out of him.
How do you know he thinks it's only Israel's interest and none of America's to nail Iran? Did he say so? Have you asked him?
I doubt that he thinks Bush is Israel's puppet, but he might. The point is, Israel has a lobby. And what is that lobby doing but serving Israel's interest, including an Iran operation?
I think we should settle Iran, and it would seem to be in America's best interest to do so, but the Congress of the United States hasn't been serving America's interests too much lately.
Maybe the Israel lobby's activities will be the deciding factor if we go.
What then?
On another topic, I notice your partisan defense and protection of Pollard. This would mean that, if you had been offered the same opportunities, you would have done the same thing, or you would be a hypocrite.
