What do you think? Sounds about right to me:
Speaking at a Tel Aviv University event reported by the Haaretz daily, Ya’alon said Israel could not afford to rely on the Obama administration to lead an action against Iran’s nuclear program, and that Israel could only rely on itself. Israel had believed that “the one who should lead the campaign against Iran is the US,” but instead, “the US at a certain stage began negotiating with them, and unfortunately in the Persian bazaar the Iranians were better,” he said. Therefore, “we (Israelis) have to look out for ourselves.”*****In his reported remarks Sunday, Ya’alon was adamant that “Iran is fooling the world” about its nuclear program,” but said the West preferred to put off any confrontation — “to next year, or the next term; but it will blow up in the end.” The Iranians had been “on all fours” because of sanctions and diplomatic isolation, but had been allowed to recover, he charged. The interim deal signed in Geneva in November “is very comfortable for the Iranians,” he said, enabling them to establish themselves as a threshold state “and break out to the bomb when they choose to do so.”*****Moving to a wider critique of the Obama administration, Ya’alon reportedly stressed several times that the US was radiating weakness in every region worldwide. “The Sunni camp [in the Middle East] expected that the US would support it, and would be as determined as Russia is in its support of the Shiite axis,” he was quoted as saying. “I hear voices of disappointment in the region. I was in Singapore, and I heard disappointment at the strengthening of China and the weakening of the United States. Look what’s happening in the Ukraine; there, to my sorrow, the US is broadcasting weakness.”
Hell, all our friends and allies are on their own. Britain, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Poland, the Czech Republic. When this was the United States of America, the nations in the world that understood and cherished freedom knew they were covered when crises arose. No more. The world is going to look a lot different as each of these lands makes its own arrangements.
Yeppers, South Viet Nam knew they were covered. Covering Iraq & Afghanistan cost us too. To borrow your famous phrase, "The $$$ has to come from somewhere." But, no, your ilk wants more feckless foreign incursions.
ReplyDelete“The US has already spent close to $2 trillion in direct outlays for expenses related to Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation New Dawn (OND),” said the 21-page Harvard report, titled ‘The Financial Legacy of Iraq and Afghanistan: How Wartime Spending Decisions Will Constrain Future National Security Budgets.’
The report also pointed out that this spending was “only a fraction” of total war costs. The“greatest expenses,” which the report said were medical care and disability benefits, have yet to be paid to soldiers. In the future, an estimated 2.5 million veterans will receive state benefits.
“The legacy of decisions taken during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars will dominate future federal budgets for decades to come,” the report said, adding that the highest cost of payouts to WWI veterans only fell about 50 years after the end of the war.
Read more at http://leaksource.info/2013/03/31/most-expensive-wars-in-us-history-financial-legacy-of-iraq-and-afghanistan/
YEs. defending Western civilization can't be done on the cheap. That makes it no less necessary.
ReplyDeleteI call it being dragged down to our enemies' levels. Pretty obvious we so easily play into their hands. While our coffers continue to drain.
ReplyDeleteExplain how this "drags us down to our enemies' levels." I truly don't understand what that means.
ReplyDeleteIt means our enemies intentionally try to pick fights with us and your ilk seems to always take the bait, i.e., get all worked up and want to attack somebody when all this has done during our lifetimes is dig us a hole it takes forever financially to dig out of with no ostensible results for our efforts. .
ReplyDeleteThey "pick fights" with us because they hate us and our way of life. They will destroy us if we don't muster the resolve to stop them.
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