The Jewish people of the Middle East are no ally of the US. By definition allies make collaborative decisions based on what is best for every group within the alliance, however, the Jewish people of the Middle East make decisions based solely on what they think is in their best interest. They justify that their horrendous past suffering has bought them an exemption from this tenet. Regardless of decades of US support, enormous financial support, enormous enough to be a detriment to our own vital domestic needs; political support that has alienated us from most of the rest of the world and put us at risk; support without which the Jewish people of the Middle East could not ignite and win (whatever that means) the next disgusting war; the Jewish people of the Middle East, without hesitation, are willing to throw the US under the bus. This is being punked; in this regard we are a chump nation. We are the rodeo clown chasing the bull.
Unfortunately the Jewish people of the Middle East are no different than hundreds of other groups through out time that worship old scraps of paper but learn nothing from their own devastating history. As most groups do, they have foolishly chosen instead to wrap themselves in wrath, self-righteousness, and entitlement. They then take their political Viagra religiously and beat the crap out of some other group. Where’s the evolution in that?
Perhaps we are emotionally unable to reject the position of the Jewish people of the Middle East because we can’t help but identify with their invasion and domination some 60+ years ago of a faraway land and people, just like we did here with the indigenous people of the East coast. Or, perhaps we just need to seriously invest in alternative domestic sources of energy.
We do need to end all support for the Jewish people of the Middle East and finally keep the money at home to help repair our education system, our infrastructure, our unemployment, et al. We need to publically disconnect from the Jewish people of the Middle East before they drag us into yet another immoral blood sucking financially crippling war, this time with nutso Iran for God sakes. Just as an aside, how are the Iranians going to drop an Atomic bomb on the Jewish people of the Middle East without killing a ton of their Muslim brethren too? Not sure how well that would be received in the neighborhood. The Jewish people of the Middle East, like all of us, need to learn to get along with their neighbors. This is the neighborhood that they supplanted themselves into some 60+ years ago. It’s plain, their neighbors are numerous and not Jewish, these neighbors of theirs are ancient and not going away; and most of these neighbors are fabulously wealthy. Most importantly, these neighbors also have their own old scraps of paper that; likewise, they mindlessly worship and vigorously wave as the absolute word of their God. Stalemate. If the Jewish people of the Middle East can’t learn to get along with their neighbors then they sew their own fate, just like all of us. If force and aggression are the only arrows in their quiver then they are not as smart as we’ve credited them with. If the word of their God is the sum total of their title to real estate then they are doomed by their own arrogance. As with all of us, eventually it boils down to pulling the poker out of our asses regardless of our history. The truth is that none of us is chosen beyond anyone else.
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Syria
11 SepIt takes great discipline and strength to say no to military action, especially if you wield the biggest stick. Like Hollywood starlets we need to stop reading our own press, it’s poisoning our character and compromising our security. We need to put our ego in check; Jesus the Savior we are not we lack the purity of heart. Beneath the propaganda our choices of who to “save” have been self-serving; one doesn’t have to look any further than the civil war in Sudan. Two million dead, lots and lots of dead children, where was our divine intervention then? With our appetite for manipulation our military should be reserved exclusively for our defense. Any foreign use of our military should actually really require congressional approval. Calling these wars police actions, conflicts, and proportionate strikes (to name a few) is a deliberate evasion of the Constitution. The Constitution – Article I, Section 8 Congress shall have the power to declare war . . . . . . Requiring congressional action should put an end to war right there. And we also need to stop doing a Madison Avenue on these war ventures trying to pass them off as BS preemptive Homeland security measures. The best preemptive security program we could employ is one of clean living, leading by example (starting with fair voting rights), lots of well thought out foreign aid, educating and training people in relevant fields and then sending them back to their countries to help build strong US friendly nations, refusing to trade with ass hole nations regardless of the economic down side for the US, and remaining open to dialog to name a few.
A fool proof acid test . . . . . If, as a result of military action, you can’t definitively measure an increased liberation, power, and autonomy of the women in the region then the action has been an obscene waste of blood and money; it has been covertly orchestrated solely for the base purpose of material advantage and/or ego gratification. This is not a test because women are more important than men, it’s a test because consistently women’s status within a society is an unequivocal marker of its evolution. Like it or not this is just the way it is, everywhere. Don’t kid yourself, to “free” a man only to have him continue a sanctioned practice of oppressing women is no victory at all. This cannot be finessed into a feel good ending. To rationalize that one human’s freedom must come first before another’s can eventually someday in the future somehow follow is pure crap; a patriarch’s prescription for never. If Assad and his men win the civil war will there be no more child brides? If the Opposition men win the civil war will there be no more honor killings? From a female perspective this exercise is all just so much political masturbation.
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