Comments on: Obama’s Cairo speech gets quick results http://www.yourish.com/2009/06/06/7735 Cutting straight to the point Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:14:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Eric J http://www.yourish.com/2009/06/06/7735/comment-page-1#comment-36719 Eric J Sun, 07 Jun 2009 08:02:27 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=7735#comment-36719 I wonder if Taiwan is feeling nervous. If they're getting the same treatment as Israel (just with less media attention) they'd probably be best off just negotiating some kind of Hong-Kong-like reunification with Mainland China, because if they're relying on US protection, they're nuts. I wonder if Taiwan is feeling nervous. If they’re getting the same treatment as Israel (just with less media attention) they’d probably be best off just negotiating some kind of Hong-Kong-like reunification with Mainland China, because if they’re relying on US protection, they’re nuts.

]]> By: Michael Lonie http://www.yourish.com/2009/06/06/7735/comment-page-1#comment-36718 Michael Lonie Sun, 07 Jun 2009 03:19:55 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=7735#comment-36718 Alex, They could have learned to judge such promises from what happened to South Vietnam and Cambodia. Now we hear that the Obama Administration threatens to cut off arms supplies if Israel does not kowtow to them. In 1974 the Democrat controlled Congress cut off military supplies to South Vietnam and Cambodia, precipitating the fall of both countries to the Communists in april 1975. I don't care how good your army is, without ammunition, shells, spare parts, and fuel, to mention only a few items, it cannot fight. Zahal would be no different. It may be a better army but absent American supplies Israel will die. Israel is the only country in the world that the USA actually treats as a colony, but without the guarantee of American troops if needed to meet a genocidal invasion. Watch for Egypt and Jordan to start revising their relations with Israel, now that the latter seems weakened by a withdrawal of support by America. Obama is stoking another war, but he does not understand what he is doing and/or does not care. As for Iran, watch the Arabs start to triangulate towards an agreement with Tehran, leaving America out in the cold. If America will hang Israel out to dry, what will America do to Arab allies that have no real public support in the US or, like the Wahhabist Entity, rely on buying their support among the foreign policy and political elites of the US upper classes? The Euros will also move towards Iran's positions, including on what to do about those pesky Jews. What none of the incredibly naive "realists" understand is that we will not make any friends or new allies by stabbing Israel in the back. We will reap only a justified contempt for deserting a friend in need. If Iran and/or the Arabs manage to perpetrate another Holocaust, as they continually say they intend to do, and if Western Civilization stands by sucking its thumb while it happens, again, it will show that Western Civilization is dead. It only remains to see when the corpse starts to rot and be carried out and dumped in the desert for the jackals to finish off. And it will deserve that fate. Alex,
They could have learned to judge such promises from what happened to South Vietnam and Cambodia. Now we hear that the Obama Administration threatens to cut off arms supplies if Israel does not kowtow to them. In 1974 the Democrat controlled Congress cut off military supplies to South Vietnam and Cambodia, precipitating the fall of both countries to the Communists in april 1975. I don’t care how good your army is, without ammunition, shells, spare parts, and fuel, to mention only a few items, it cannot fight. Zahal would be no different. It may be a better army but absent American supplies Israel will die. Israel is the only country in the world that the USA actually treats as a colony, but without the guarantee of American troops if needed to meet a genocidal invasion.

Watch for Egypt and Jordan to start revising their relations with Israel, now that the latter seems weakened by a withdrawal of support by America. Obama is stoking another war, but he does not understand what he is doing and/or does not care.

As for Iran, watch the Arabs start to triangulate towards an agreement with Tehran, leaving America out in the cold. If America will hang Israel out to dry, what will America do to Arab allies that have no real public support in the US or, like the Wahhabist Entity, rely on buying their support among the foreign policy and political elites of the US upper classes? The Euros will also move towards Iran’s positions, including on what to do about those pesky Jews.

What none of the incredibly naive “realists” understand is that we will not make any friends or new allies by stabbing Israel in the back. We will reap only a justified contempt for deserting a friend in need.

If Iran and/or the Arabs manage to perpetrate another Holocaust, as they continually say they intend to do, and if Western Civilization stands by sucking its thumb while it happens, again, it will show that Western Civilization is dead. It only remains to see when the corpse starts to rot and be carried out and dumped in the desert for the jackals to finish off. And it will deserve that fate.

]]> By: Alex Bensky http://www.yourish.com/2009/06/06/7735/comment-page-1#comment-36715 Alex Bensky Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:20:31 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=7735#comment-36715 Breaking with a lifetime's habit, I voted Republican for president last fall and as I walked out of the voting booth I remember thinking I would be most pleased in four years to vote for Obama and happily concede I'd made a mistake and misjudged him. I have seen no sign that I did. I especially like that part about the Arabs implement their agreements but the Israelis don't. I see; that explains why Israel is still holding onto the Sinai and why the Arabs--not just Palestinians--have abandoned the constant, vile anti-Semitism that spews out of virtually every source. Why anyone will again credit a solemn American promise about anything is beyond me. Breaking with a lifetime’s habit, I voted Republican for president last fall and as I walked out of the voting booth I remember thinking I would be most pleased in four years to vote for Obama and happily concede I’d made a mistake and misjudged him.

I have seen no sign that I did. I especially like that part about the Arabs implement their agreements but the Israelis don’t. I see; that explains why Israel is still holding onto the Sinai and why the Arabs–not just Palestinians–have abandoned the constant, vile anti-Semitism that spews out of virtually every source.

Why anyone will again credit a solemn American promise about anything is beyond me.

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