[Inkie]

All this to and fro about GW is pretty useless. While most of us here support Israel's right to defend herself, we must remember that the President's duty is to the USA and its citizens first. (I say this as an American Jew.) If it is in our interests to shmooze the Saudis enough to help our effort to take out Saddam, then so be it. Those nasty sheiks he is dealing with have complex political situations at home. This may be a case like us having to hold our noses and team up with Stalin to defeat Hitler. You do what you have to do. While Israel's long-term interests are the same as ours, that is not to say that our interests will coincide at every point in time. It is in their interests for us to defeat Saddam, who is undoubtedly the greatest threat not only to the region, but to the world.

[ClancyJ]

All this to and fro about GW is pretty useless

So very true. So nice to read a well thought out point of view instead of one based solely on tearing down the conservative movement and destroying Bush.

My husband always says I am wasting my time on FR. So true, I could have spent the time fussin at the democrats or undecideds.

[Twodees]

What's fairly obvious in hindsight is that we didn't need to team up with Stalin to defeat Hitler. Had we left them alone, Hitler and Stalin would have done massive damage to each other and we could have shoved both of them into battlefield graves. We were led into an alliance with Stalin by a communist president. That bears remembering. Politicians are worthless at best. At worst they are positive menaces.

The President should never have the power to ally us with a gang of devils like the House of Saud. Expecting Bush to be different from FDR in any meaningful way is a futile expectation. He's cut from the same sort of cloth as the old commie who dragged us into WWII.