If Massad and his ilk had the wits the Good Lord gave an oyster they would see that America is the Muslims’ and especially the Arabs’ best friend. Except for a few rare individuals, only George Bush and the dreaded Neocons think that Arabs are fully adult human beings capable of governing themselves by consensual government. Everybody else, that’s everybody, thinks Arabs are a bunch of ragheaded wogs who will make a pig’s breakfast of things if left to themselves, so need the whip of a bloody-handed tyrant like Saddam to keep them in line. Otherwise they will be a pain in the ass to themselves and everybody else. That’s also the belief of the “realists” in America. And these are supposed to be the “friends” of the Arabs? People who hold them in utter contempt?

The US tried hard to make friends of the Pan-Arab nationalists like Nasser. In every case they preferred to become clients of the USSR, and nearly got their countries made into colonies of that state. Oh, very clever. Nor did American favor for Israel have anything to do with their decisions. When Nasser decided to become subservient to the Soviets the USA, under Eisenhower, had an arms embargo on Israel. The Eisenhower Administration thought Israel was too close to the USSR. It’s laughable in retrospect. The American-Israel alliance is the result, not the cause, of Arab anti-Americanism.

For a leftist to complain about dictatorships is risible as well as monstrously hypocritical. They supported without question far worse tyrants around the world than ever the US did, so long as the tyrants spouted socialism. Those we supported, in Latin America for example, were no threats to their neighbors and did not impose savage ideologies of lies on the people they ruled, as did those the left favored.

As for “natioanal liberation movements” none of them liberated anything, they only made slaves of the people they came to rule or simply destroyed the country they ruled. Look at Zimbabwe, a classic case. Would you rather live, as a black African, under the present regime or under the white regime of Ian Smith? Nobody was starving under the whites.

I see Massad has the typical Arab fantasy mind. The nasty Israelis started a war against the poor, innocent Nasser. What a denial of reality, so typical of the Arab intellectual mind. He must live in a squalid sewer of lies. The heroes of Pan-Arab nationalism were a bunch of squalid dictators who ruined their countries and destabilized all their neighbors because they were too incompetent to rule intelligently, so fled to a fantasyland of imaginary greatness instead. Twits like Massad are still parroting this pernicious nonsense.

Unbefrikinglievable.

Wow! Great post!

I really like the Massad analysis on the cost effectiveness of Israel as an Ally. Massad is viciously anti-Israel yet even he has to acknowledge the huge return we Americans receive for our half-hearted support of Israel.

No wonder the French and Russians and Chinese are doing everything in their power to seduce the Israelis away from us.

My fear is that the eternally pro-Arab State Department screws up and no longer makes it in Israels interest to support us. That would be yet another disaster along the lines of when State lost China in the late 1940’s.