McKinney wouldn't be the first one that got taken down by the AIPAC crowd...and yes it is a problem.
The Jewish, or I suppose correctly called zionist, and AIPAC influence in our foreign policy is a problem.
Our AIPAC corrupted congress is a problem.

We need American polices, made by Americans for Americans and based on the principles that served us well up until the past few decades.

So in that spirit I have spent my usual $2000 bucks in political donations on 500 copies of Israeli Citizenship Applications to send to the Israeli loyalist in the house and senate.

Plus postage...this will be my political conribution to both parties until such time as anyone currently in or running for office in this country understands they work for the United States, me and my fellow Americans, not AIPAC or Israel.

Oh..and did I mention I won't be voting for either party either? Let them run for office in Israel. I have been done with the repubs for a long time and now I am done with the dems.

Posted at August 4, 2006 11:41 PM in response to McKinney

Kenneth

I have to ask why you are committed to a strong US/Isr relationship?

According to your bio you are a US citizen. Correct me if I am wrong.

A lot of us besides you have been watching the Isr/Pal deal and the ME very closely and see an entirely different set of facts than what you are presenting.

So what's the deal here? Why are you pushing the Israeli line when you know that what they are doing is making things much worse in the ME for Americans and America?

Posted at July 13, 2006 11:41 PM in response to Where is W?

What will happen in the next 4 months?

Well who cares really?..Everything is about which twin will win, the dems or the repubs, nothing else matters. Even if we have more terror alerts they will try to outdo each other braying about how only they can best protect the Amurkin sheepel...er...people.

And we sheep will all be doing our part in saving the nation by visiting blogs and bravely defending the Red or the Blue on our keyboards here in the land of abundant speech and freedom from thought.

Posted at July 12, 2006 6:39 AM in response to Question of the Day

Well, I don't know that it is standard behavior for all people. Maybe some.

I have a rather simple view of right and wrong. Israel has stolen Palestine land and resources and has provoked violence to keep the conflict going in order to avoid giving it back and establishing a peace. That's pretty plain by now. While I feel sorry for the ordinary Israeli I do not buy the security excuse any longer. They have always known what they have to do to quell the violence and bring about a peace of some sort. I think we are seeing a collective social sickness there much like Germans who refused to admit what their leadership was doing. Much like some Americans right now who refuse to see what this adm is doing.

I can't say the Palestines are doing anything I wouldn't do in the same circumstances. I could say I would never target civilians but I don't know how crazed I would be after 37 years of occupation and seeing my own people's children die.

It's hard to realize that it is always a minority that brings about insanity like this and even harder to see how the majority stands by and does nothing until the last minute when they can't deny it any longer.

Posted at July 10, 2006 12:44 AM in response to Blogging from Israel

Huummmm...so considering the in$erest other countries like Russia and China have in the region what do you think their position would be in the event of a Israeli-Arab war?

And I am not too sure that without US involvement the Israelis would actually win a war if enough Arab countries took them on...and if Israel actually used a nuke...well that would be the end of Israel for all practical purposes as far as the rest of the universe is concerned.

Just because the Arabs countries have never presented a united front before doesn't mean they never will...everyone has a piss off point.

Seems the entire region is getting closer and closer to that that point to me.

Posted at July 10, 2006 12:19 AM in response to Blogging from Israel

Well..seeing as how there is not a lot of "there" there I don't why she bothered either.

I don't think she has to be in Gaza to comment on the reactions, if any, to the international community's recent remarks on the international laws violations...seems it would be a bit more important right now to most people than the social scene and sports.

Posted at July 10, 2006 12:00 AM in response to Blogging from Israel

What George said....

"So likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification. It leads also to concessions to the favorite nation of privileges denied to others which is apt doubly to injure the nation making the concessions; by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained, and by exciting jealousy, ill-will, and a disposition to retaliate, in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld. And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens (who devote themselves to the favorite nation), facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation.

Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government. But that jealousy to be useful must be impartial; else it becomes the instrument of the very influence to be avoided, instead of a defense against it. Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other. Real patriots who may resist the intrigues of the favorite are liable to become suspected and odious, while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people, to surrender their interests.

Posted at July 9, 2006 8:40 PM in response to Where None Dare Blog

All so very true...

However too bad the ethics debate is usually peverted by those who actually mean ...."the end justifies the means"....particulary when the end is to their particular benefit.

Posted at July 9, 2006 8:23 PM in response to The Ethics of Foreign Policy

Er....I hate to tell you but Truman wasn't the definer of American interest and how to protect them.

For that you need to see George Washington..and especially his 1779 Farewell Address to the nation....

Posted at July 9, 2006 8:18 PM in response to The Ethics of Foreign Policy

Well, I think you are right..mostly.

It has boggled my mind for years that all Israelis don't see what they doing...

The Israelis are beyond my understanding, the only thing I can compare them to any longer is the same syndrome of an abused child growing up to be an abuser.

Posted at July 9, 2006 7:13 PM in response to Blogging from Israel