How about whatever happens not making a problematic and at best morally dubious project in the Levant our number one foreign policy commitment (with the exception of recreating all the same villiany on our own in Iraq)

He got on TV after the 9/11 attacks

And managed to do it without wetting his pants and crying. So he’s better than Bush.

See the Protocol of Sèvres.

Uhhh, cleaned the porn out of Times Square?

I’m going to disagree on the point that the Arab states were aggressors post-1948. Israel invaded for no reason during the Suez Crisis, and while Nasser was a total idiot for blockading the Straits of Tiran, the Israelis and the rest of the Arab states knew he was just bluffing. The Six Days War was a pre-emptive strike against Egypt. Rhetoric was very different from reality for the macho dictators in Egypt, Syria, and Iraq at the time.

Also, I think there are many who would argue that Likud was an outgrowth of feelings of Israeli invincibility, not vunerability, as well as increasing religiosity.

Sad AND true. Kind of like the position we’re in, where we really have very little choice but to tolerate this corrupt, criminal, incompetent leadership for another 20+ months. Most everybody wants them gone, but like a tumor, they just stay there.

In spite of the years and the history, the Israelis and the Palestinians could have peace anytime. Israel has all the power, military, economic, diplomatic. So it would be up to Israel to step away from the cycle of violent conflict and treat their neighbors fairly. Would there still be attacks? Sure there would, you can’t UN radicalize an entire society overnight, but if Israel would help the Palestinians develop a livable infrastructure, with schools and medical care and clean water the number and ferocity of the attacks would go down fairly rapidly.

But the Likudniks realize that their only hold on power is to demonize an external enemy and create a perpetual state of war. As long as the war is raging, it is “not safe” to adopt a platform of peach. They are criminal thugs, very similar to our criminal thugs…

mikey

And I agree to some degree with you on Israel as well, but since the Arab states were the primary aggressors post-1948, I tend to look at them more harshly. If you look at how we treated the Native Americans, I’m not surprised that we didn’t whip out that old playbook and give it to the Likud. I think there were some great ideas on how to deal with Palestine (if you’re curious look up Martin Buber), but things are messy right now and a good way to get that started is to have both Israelis and Palestinians so sick of the BS from Likud and Hamas/PLO that neither group would hold any political power for generations. I think that time is coming, but not yet.

Have you considered adding the word “Right” in front of your title of Hon., Brad?

Hehehe. Well, then your stuff doesn’t belong to you, Brownie, so guess what? We’ll take it now, thank you very much.

And sweet baby jesus in a mulcher.
http://wonkette.com/politics/michelle-malkin/malkins-site-now-requires-adult-id-check-255240.php
What the fuck is wrong with her? Ignoring the fact that that was REALLY poorly done, isn’t she, like, 35? That’s just embarrassing.