Open Thread

President Trump
Would also have a real exit strategy:
He could offer uncooperative despots an
apartment in a Trump building
(but only the ones in Brooklyn)

I reaaaaally need chocolate now. I went down earlier but it was raining so we didn’t go. Is it still?

“Or are you just arguing the Israel can defend itself?”

I have doubts that Isreal can defend itself, but they have certainly suprised people before.
Either way, I do not think that the US has any obligation to prop up Israel. They trend to take us for granted and treat us like crap, but we give them more money than any other country.

Our relationship with Israel is a clear case of the US basing its foreign policy on religion, not strategy, and it has costs us in many ways over the decades.

Unfortunately, I do agree with Benson that we can’t just abandon Israel for the the reasons he stated and others. I do think that a slow distancing would be a good thing.

By Expert Textpert on March 23, 2011 4:07 PM

“what the Arab world respects above all else is firm leadership and power.”

And it ain’t the USA….thanks to Bush

I don’t think you actually understand. The rest of the world population may have despised Bush but the leadership of the rest of the world respected the fact that he did what he said he would do and he stood by it.

A superpower does need to weild a bit of fear to remain a superpower.