Posted on 06/21/2002 2:15:08 AM PDT by GalvestonBeachcomber
President George Bush continues to act as if he were a ventriloquist's dummy sitting on the lap of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Sharon says he doesn't like Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Bush says, I don't like Arafat. Sharon says he won't talk peace. Bush says, It's not time to talk peace. And so on and so forth.
Most Americans don't give a hoot about the Middle East one way or the other, just as they don't give a hoot about Asia, Africa or Latin America. Americans should understand, however, that as long as the U.S. government assists the Israelis in brutalizing the Palestinians, denying them the protection of international law and denying them their basic human rights, then the supply of terrorist recruits will be infinite.
Why American presidents are so willing to risk American lives, to jeopardize America's national interests, to give away American taxpayers' money by the billions in order to cater to the Israelis and their powerful American lobby will no doubt fascinate future historians. In the meantime, Bush is proving to be totally incompetent in the conduct of American foreign policy.
His ignorance of the world at large is astounding. Apparently, he was not kidding when he joked about never reading any books. He probably demands that his staff give him one-paragraph summaries of complex issues with multiple-choice options. His entire policy, if you can call it that, about the Middle East seems to be dictated by the Israelis and their American agents.
The entire Arab world at last is willing to make peace with Israel, and Sharon and Bush are flatly turning their backs on the opportunity. Sharon is doing so because he has no intention of ever making peace with the Palestinians and says so frequently. Bush is doing it because he does whatever Sharon tells him to do. In doing that, Bush is sending a clear signal to the Arab world that he looks upon it with the same racist, colonialist attitude of Sharon. Arab suggestions and advice count for nothing. Bush seems to think he can always bully and/or bribe the Arab countries into going along with whatever Sharon decides to do.
That is an extremely dangerous assumption.
Among the many subjects Bush never bothered to study is general semantics, and its most important lesson is that today is not yesterday. The Middle East in 2002 is not the Middle East in 1948. The United States in 2002 is not the United States in 1991. The age of the Western stooge is coming to an end in the Arab world. A new generation of Arab leaders is in the wings. Mr. Bush is, vis-á-vis the Middle East, like the old segregationists in the 1960s who refused to recognize that American blacks had finally said, "Enough is enough."
America's (and Israel's) military superiority rests entirely on its high-technology Air Force. It is only a matter of time before the Chinese or the Russians make an air-defense breakthrough that will erase that superiority. And once we have to go man to man, tank to tank, without domination of the sky and ground by air power, Americans will learn that we are not the superpower our politicians claim we are. The day will come when we will not be able to bomb defenseless people with impunity, and on that day, Americans will wish they had relied more on diplomacy than on force.
George Washington's farewell address is the greatest statement that was ever made about what America's foreign and domestic policy should be. He warned against "passionate attachment" to another nation, which, he said, produces a variety of evils — the illusion of common interests where no real common interests exist; adopting the enmities of the other; and participation in the quarrels and wars of the other without any justification. Still another evil is that such a passionate attachment gives to "ambitious, corrupted or deluded citizens the facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country." Too bad Bush isn't a reader.
Along this same line . …. Has Bush ever given one good reason why the USA must attack Iraq?
"American boys will not fight Ariel boys wars!"(LBJ Vietnam -Asia)
(Wanna bet?)
Yeah, right. And if he believes this, I've got a bridge to sell him.
Just to set things straight.
BUMP
No, it's far too short of a rant to be something from Justina. Because of it's overall incoherence and lack of anything substantial to reinforce its thesis ...
... it more closely matches something written by or for LewRockwell.com.
Charlie Reese, the Ignorant. We have far more than just an Air Force. Oh, and that air defense breakthru? I happen to know that we are ready to counter it.
Charley Reese, the Writer for the Stoopid. An amazing grasp of the obvious and the insulting and the same time. He insults nearly everyone in the same paragraph. Bush is stupid, Arab leaders are stooges and USA is racist.
Pace yourself, MACD. I'm sure the President will give more than one good reason why the USA must attack Iraq when and IF he says it.
Bullhockey. This rant totally ignores the fact that U.S. foreign policy for the last couple of decades has embraced Israel's enemies, on the crazy assumption that they were reasonable human beings. Powell has been just more of the same in this regard. But Bush policy has been grudgingly moving Israel's way, inch by inch pushed closer to sanity by every bomb that annihilates and/or dismembers men, women and children...closer to the realization that the Islamists are rabid dogs who can't be dealt with, only defeated.
Most Americans don't give a hoot about the Middle East one way or the other, just as they don't give a hoot about Asia, Africa or Latin America.
More bullhockey. A very large number of Americans care very much what happens to Israel...more than ever before as the truth about Islamic intentions becomes more evident...illustrated daily on our front pages by the blood of innocents targeted by their hatred.
Americans should understand, however, that as long as the U.S. government assists the Israelis in brutalizing the Palestinians, denying them the protection of international law and denying them their basic human rights, then the supply of terrorist recruits will be infinite.
Now why would we want to understand a lie? If the Palestinians would act like civilized human beings, they would be treated accordingly.
Why American presidents are so willing to risk American lives, to jeopardize America's national interests, to give away American taxpayers' money by the billions in order to cater to the Israelis and their powerful American lobby will no doubt fascinate future historians.
Perhaps those future historians will have more sense than you, Charlie...and will grasp that we felt an obligation to stand with those who are being targeted for annihilation by racist, cultist Islamo-Nazis.
In the meantime, Bush is proving to be totally incompetent in the conduct of American foreign policy.
While I have certainly been critical of many of the policies of the Administration, especially domestically, and I certainly haven't agreed with everything they have done internationally, I find the President to have been anything but incompetent in the conduct of American foreign policy...the record so far is pretty darn good.
His ignorance of the world at large is astounding. Apparently, he was not kidding when he joked about never reading any books. He probably demands that his staff give him one-paragraph summaries of complex issues with multiple-choice options.
Gratuitous cr*pola...he sounds like he's reading from the Democrat talking points.
His entire policy, if you can call it that, about the Middle East seems to be dictated by the Israelis and their American agents.
Back to the root of the problem in Charlie's demented Israel-hating dream world.
The entire Arab world at last is willing to make peace with Israel...
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha....excuse me...hahahahah....ahem....sorry...he caused me to strain my credulity...LOLOLOL...
...and Sharon and Bush are flatly turning their backs on the opportunity.
Propaganda worthy of Goebbels...straight from the lying Islamist handbook.
Sharon is doing so because he has no intention of ever making peace with the Palestinians and says so frequently.
Good. I'm glad someone has come to the realization that you can't deal on friendly terms with a vicious rabid dog...you have to either isolate it or put it down.
Bush is doing it because he does whatever Sharon tells him to do.
Blah blah blah....
In doing that, Bush is sending a clear signal to the Arab world that he looks upon it with the same racist, colonialist attitude of Sharon.
So Bush and Sharon are the racist colonialists?...yeah right...LOL...when they are the ones who are the bulwarks against the Palestinian racists whose avowed goal is to kill every Jew, and push them into the sea....talk about calling black white, and white black.
Arab suggestions and advice count for nothing.
Hey, there's one thing I agree with! ;-) /sarcasm
Bush seems to think he can always bully and/or bribe the Arab countries into going along with whatever Sharon decides to do.
And there is what evidence that the craven Arab leaders won't or can't be bought/bribed and/or coerced?
That is an extremely dangerous assumption.
No, what is dangerous is that Americans can be deceived into believing lying Islamist propaganda, and then use their public platform to spread their disease.
Among the many subjects Bush never bothered to study is general semantics, and its most important lesson is that today is not yesterday.
Putting aside Charlie's gratuitous slap, God help us all if Charlie's semantics are the semantics for today or tomorrow or ever.
The Middle East in 2002 is not the Middle East in 1948. The United States in 2002 is not the United States in 1991.
The age of the Western stooge is coming to an end in the Arab world.
If that is true, you can expect an Age of Darkness to descend on the Middle East, then.
A new generation of Arab leaders is in the wings.
Are there explosives strapped to their bodies?
America's (and Israel's) military superiority rests entirely on its high-technology Air Force.
That is soooo funny. Those darn Iraqis must have trounced our tank corps a decade ago, in Reese's alternative universe. LOL
It is only a matter of time before the Chinese or the Russians make an air-defense breakthrough that will erase that superiority. And once we have to go man to man, tank to tank, without domination of the sky and ground by air power, Americans will learn that we are not the superpower our politicians claim we are.
I'll put my odds on Americans against anybody in the world, man to man, tank to tank.
The day will come when we will not be able to bomb defenseless people with impunity...
Jerk. Where has he been for the last 20 years. No country in the history of warfare has worked harder to avoid civilian casualties. This is an insult to our national character, and frankly makes my blood boil.
...and on that day, Americans will wish they had relied more on diplomacy than on force.
Diplomacy has limits...diplomats can be complete dolts for starters...and in order to talk instead of fight, you have to have an adversary who is sane and reasonable. The Islamists are neither sane nor reasonable. In order to have agreements that are anything more than a worthless piece of paper, you need signatories who have at least some conception of honor and truth. The Islamists lie, twist and mask their true intentions...which are to crush their enemies under their heel.
George Washington's farewell address is the greatest statement that was ever made about what America's foreign and domestic policy should be. He warned against "passionate attachment" to another nation...
If GW was alive today, he would have a passionate attachment to the state of Israel, and to every nation that was under attack by radical Islam.
...which, he said, produces a variety of evils — the illusion of common interests where no real common interests exist; adopting the enmities of the other; and participation in the quarrels and wars of the other without any justification.
At no time in history could common interests be clearer than now.
How could it be any clearer that Israel's enemies are our enemies and the enemies of all that is right and good? No justification?!?!
Maybe Charlie needs to watch every scrap of footage from 9-11-01 for about a month!! Maybe he should go over and walk up close to a smoldering bus in Jerusalem!! Maybe if he smelled the charred flesh he might discover reality!!
But somehow I doubt it. He seems to be so out of touch with reality, I doubt even that would do it. He would blame it on Bush and America, or Sharon and Israel anyway.
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