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To: quadrant
We would have no reason - rational or otherwise - to cease to support Israel.

Try to think the way a clinton-BO axis would about this. Reason has nothing to do with it. Political expediency and major bux, however...

160 posted on 01/01/2009 12:25:03 AM PST by Seven plus One
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To: Seven plus One
I agree and disagree. Hussein/Clinton team are politically expedient to the nth degree. However, their expediency does have a certain logic (at least to their way of thinking) to it. They want better relations with the Arab/Muslim world; they feel that our support of Israel is an impediment to improved relations; therefore, the best way to improve relations is to decouple the US and Israel.
As I wrote, this notion has bit of superficial logic. The argument ignores the reality of Arab/Muslim hostility to the US and the West, which is religious, cultural, economic, and military. Given the state of the Muslim world, the hostility would remain if Israel did not exist, although the virulent criticism might be muted slightly - at least for a while.

Hussein/Clinton are unwilling to accept this argument, as they view the world through the distorted and self-absorbed lenses of their own opinions. They fail to realize that Israel is the but the visible symbol of Muslin anger with the US and not the cause of it.

184 posted on 01/01/2009 9:57:40 AM PST by quadrant (1o)
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