It's Official: The Limbaugh Doctrine

please remove yourself from the human gene pool.

A bit harsh, don't you think? Do you consider yourself a Christian?

I am an unabashed, proud supporter of Israel

Your screen name indicates you are a US citizen. Not an America First citizen unfortunately.

Israel is on the front lines of the war on terrorism, and has been since her inception.

Of course it is, Israel was created by the UN smack in the middle of a region full of arab Muslims who hate Jews. Try to differentiate between cause and effect occasionally.

Israel occupies less than 1% of the total land mass of the Arab world. Why is it that the Palestinians and those that support its terrorist regine INSIST on creating a Palestinian homeland by taking land away from a people who occupy less than 1% of the total land mass of the region?

I personally do not care who wins or loses. I just want my country and my taxdollars left out of it.

Don't bother, I know your answer. Thank God above you are not the final arbiter of who is a Conservative and who is not. I shall strive to never meet YOUR narrow definition!

Is your "final arbiter" limbaugh by chance?

Regards

J.R.

Your no. 58. For the lazy, here's your post:

If the only choices offered to Israel by the Palestinians and neighboring Arab nations are slow death carried out through a combination of endless negotiation and terror, or total war with the PA and any neighboring nations that choose to become militarily involved, Israel will eventually have to take the second option if it wishes to survive. If the right of return remains a sticking point for the Palestinians, for instance, what choice could there be besides war? Negotiation is fine and dandy, but it must involve give and take, something neither side is particularly interested in at this point.

Thank God for some reasoned thought around here. Exactly. And this is exactly the situation Bush is constructing. Unlike his predecessor Bush has a fall-back position. Clintoon demanded an all-or nothing political solution; Bush looks to create one. Clintoon demanded an outcome; Bush looks to guide one. The difference between the two is crucial to the success. Bush does not, has not ruled out failure. Clinton walked circles around it, which allowed Arafat his exit. Bush stands with the door open, smiling, daring Arafat to take it. Since its an option Arafat can't do it. It's truly marvelous, and so simple.

The "nuke-em now" crowd fail to appreciate that war is politics by other means. Sound familiar? It should, especially to those of the "total victory" persuasion. Politics must fail, first. Here it is: Bush's politics have not yet failed. The Isreali position demonstrates this. Isreal is so far unwilling to go to war.

I remind Limbaugh that Hiroshima followed the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans. On behalf of my grandfather who sailed into Tokyo harbor with MacArthur, I take deep offense at the comparison.

On behalf of Ronald Reagan and all the Americans who sacrificed lives and careers and tax dollars in pursuit of peace and the defeat of the USSR, I take offense that the doctrine of "total war" is totally a military war. In the Cold War the USA waged a war of politics, economics, and isolated warfare for forty-six years to win that one. We won big.

And on behalf of Nicollo's more correctly spelled namesake, I take supreme offense at the assertion that only a total Isreali military victory brings peace in the Middle East. Niccolo Machiavelli would be ashamed to think that Isreali mercenaries could bring about an American victory. Or does Limbaugh think that's one and the same?

Limbaugh is in love with a theory.

"So likewise, a passionate attachment of one Nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite Nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest, in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter, without adequate inducement or justification.

It leads also to concessions to the favorite Nation of privileges denied to others, which is apt doubly to injure the Nation making the concessions; by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained; and by exciting jealousy, ill-will, and a disposition to retaliate, in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld.

And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens, (who devote themselves to the favorite nation,) facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation."

George Washington
Farewell Address

George Washington -- Farewell Address

Thanks for posting this.

Of course Washington was a simple uneducated, unenlightened farmer. His warning was made more than two centuries ago and he could not possibly have forseen the complexities of the modern global age.

I said that to save the pro entangling alliance folks the trouble.

Regards

J.R.

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Who is George Salt was kind enough to post this -- FYI

"So likewise, a passionate attachment of one Nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite Nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest, in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter, without adequate inducement or justification.

It leads also to concessions to the favorite Nation of privileges denied to others, which is apt doubly to injure the Nation making the concessions; by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained; and by exciting jealousy, ill-will, and a disposition to retaliate, in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld.

And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens, (who devote themselves to the favorite nation,) facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation."

George Washington Farewell Address

Regards

J.R.

You forgot forcing health insurance companies to have parity in covering mental health.

Sounds like a conservative position to any Bush defender? Wait til you see your health care premiums; you think your tax cut will pay for the increase?