[SJackson]

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[John Lenin]

Bush deserves the legacy coming to him.

[MNJohnnie]

So once again we see why the "Realists" dogmas are so utterly stupid. Sell our our friends, reward our enemies, run awa. And people wonder why no on in the Middle East trusts the USA? Because they all expect us to sell them out again.

Wisdom in the ME is "don't stick your necks out for the Americans, they will run away when you need them most".

[MNJohnnie]

Try convincing anyone in the world of this today. EVERYONE who has ever relied upon the "realists" to stand by their commitments has been sold out. EVERYONE. The only reason they haven't sold out the Israelis is because the Jewish American lobby as always been domestically powerful enough a force in DC to stop them. What the "realists" never seem to grasp is that sucking up to your foes and selling out your allies merely creates more and more enemies for you to have to eventually face. The Realists are just like the Leftist. Intellectually and Morally lazy. So much easier to just patch together a deal and let the thugs and bully boys deal with the problem. That why they always love thugs. It is some much easier for them to Do Nothing if the locals are thugs and bully boys.

After all the "realists" would not want to let anything distract them from their cocktail parties and golf games plus the really serious business of making third world thugs money by being their friend in DC.