[BenF]

I extend my congratulations, you have made progress today!).

Don't flatter yourself. I have always had the position that nothing is free and that American support of Israel comes with an expensive price tag.

So, as I said, this isn't really something over which you have any control.

Your attitude precludes my learning anything from you. Now, if you want to learn something about whether or not I have control over learning from you, please continue in your current vein. You will learn how quickly I can ignore someone. If you want confirmation of this, just ask PhilV.

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

Don't flatter yourself. I have always had the position that nothing is free and that American support of Israel comes with an expensive price tag.

In which case, it's a little odd that you would go into a conniption fit over my statement "Let Israel stand on their own. Let's keep our noses out of it if Israel nukes the Arabs into oblivion." Your response to that statement was,

"Why people refuse to learn is beyond me. But if that's the course you've chosen for yourself, that's fine. I just hope that the majority of Americans have learned from history. Obviously, you haven't."

Passing strange.

After all, my reasoning for saying "Let Israel stand on their own; Let's keep our noses out of it if Israel nukes the Arabs into oblivion" is simply to agree with the idea "that Israel be allowed to defend itself without American interference. If America hadn't intervened starting in 1967, Israel could have conquored and held onto more land. They would have the oil fields of the Sinai today".

So if this - "American support of Israel comes with an expensive price tag" - a position which "you have always held", that's all to the good. It just makes your vehemently oppositional response to my statement, "Let Israel stand on their own; Let's keep our noses out of it if Israel nukes the Arabs into oblivion", seem awfully short-tempered.

See what I am saying?