Bush obviously wants to turn Israel into a Palestinian state and ignorant FReepers continually deny it. His mutterings about Islam being the Religion of Peace is something I would expect from someone high on drugs. Muslims see us Christians as infidels. Bush doesn’t appear to be aware that America was founded on Christian beliefs. He can hold hands all he wants with the Saudia Arabian mullahs but it won’t convince me that he is a statesman worthy of the position he holds.
I've begun to doubt that Mr. Bush has a reasonable grasp of reality. If he supposes that the Saudis are our "friends" and "allies," he'd have to be nutz. They are a major part of the cartel that is deliberately driving up the oil price, to squeeze America in a time of war, and to enrich their coffers so they can continue to export Wahhabism to the rest of the world. All this at a time when Hezbollah is taking over Lebanon at gun point, Hamas is trying to destroy Israel, and Iran is fighting a proxy war against us in Iraq. Yeah, they're our "buddies," all right.
It is said that the Arab world is split along Sunni and Shia lines, and also along the Arab/Persian divide. We are told that Arab states like Saudi Arabia and Egypt are concerned about Iranian irredentism. But it sure looks to me that all these states work together very well when it suits them. And evidently it suits them when their object is to weaken America.
Sometimes I think that George Bush just wants the rest of the world "to love us," so he bends over to accommodate states who don't. Check out the massive foreign aid to our so-called "allies" over there....
As for me, I don't care a whit whether the rest of the world loves us or not. I'd prefer to have them respect us, even to fear us. There's no point in selling out American interests to our enemies. I just wish George Bush, and the Arabists at the State Department, understood that and acted accordingly.
BTW, have you read Kenneth Timmerman's Shadow Warriors? It'll make your blood boil: Treason is alive and well at the State department and CIA....
Thanks for writing, B4Ranch!