Friday, June 22, 2007

Israel As Policymaker

Colonel R.E. Bartos, USA, Ret. has some sobering thoughts about the United State's and its involvement in the Middle East over on this blog, Shrapnel. Says the colonel:
US failures in the region are a disastrous example of permitting Israel to make our policy there.
The colonel further says:
Barak as new Israel Defense Minister may be sobering for Israel and bring some adult thinking into the Israeli policy instead childish delusions of the restoration of King David's Kingdom.
And therein lies the problem, trying to restore something that is unrestorable.

The world of today is a vastly different place than the world of King David, whose Jerusalem was only a few acres of mud brick structures, surrounded by enemies that have survived to this day. Those enemies have fought the Jewish incursion into the area since the beginning of history.

The claim made by the Jews that their god gave them the place long ago is not a logical platform on which to base any of America's foreign policy. We must base our policies on the realities of today, not the wishful thinking of a small religous sect pining away for the past.

He offers one other observation:
I am certain Hamas is an Israeli enemy, but Hamas is not a part of the 9/11 attack or Jihad in Iraq... America may want to reconsider taking on the many and proliferating Israeli enemies as their own.
How true.

We have enough problems of our own, in particular the Mexican invasion and their war for the American southwest.

Let the Israelis make war of peace with their enemies as they see fit, but leave us out of it.

3 comments:

TheWayfarer said...

My only problem with "The Jews Run And Own Everything!!!" conspiracy theory, is that it was propagated by the Jesuits and Opus Dei long before Hitler made it a concise, practical blueprint for mass-murder.

Anonymous said...

Smokescreens, Galt, misdirection... something any two-bit magician would know about... and use.

TheWayfarer said...

Which is smokescreens and misdirection? Hitler, or the Papist liars that set him on his course?