I've been thinking about what was billed as a major foreign policy address by Hillionaire. What particularly strikes me is the range of opinion on the right. John Podhoretz and Charles Krauthammer, to name a couple, were surprised at how impressed they were, saying it was downright substantive. Others panned it roundly, calling it thin on both vision and a list of her accomplishments.
I'd put myself in the latter category. When she started into her brag list, it was clear she had nothing but the weakest of tea to offer. She spoke of negotiating a "climate-change" deal with China. She did nothing of the sort. China doesn't have to lift a finger regarding its carbon output until 2030. She spoke of helping to craft sanctions against Iran. A lot of good those have done. (See post below.) She mentioned her work on behalf of LGBT people around the world. Um, okay.
Of course, Squirrel-Hair has already responded, and done so with his characteristic bombast. Screaming about how she's a liar.
I'm afraid we're seeing how the dynamic of the inevitable two-candidate race is going to play out. Hillionaire will make statements and give speeches that don't amount to diddly, but will comport herself with sufficient bearing to allow the media to portray her as statesmanlike, in contrast to the fourth-grade playground-bully antics of S-H. And his Bots will be oblivious to how it's shaping up.
And, of course, the real prescription for restoring America to its role as the guarantor of a just and humane world order, not to mention its basic domestic safety, will not get an airing.
It's a certainty that Western civilization is past its peak.
I find the depth of her knowledge and presentation about foreign relations quite reassuring when juxtaposed with the boorish and dangerous Donald. You, on the other hand, prefer the tightly wound bellicosity of a dangerous man like Nettie. Still can't believe your ilk fawn so over him and even elevated him above our freely eleted Commander in Chief here.
ReplyDeleteNetanyahu is only dangerous to Western civilization's enemies.
ReplyDeleteHe is quite detested everywhere he goes. I think I know what love is and he isn't.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.counterpunch.org/2015/05/08/netanyahu-even-his-friends-detest-him/
ReplyDeleteOnce again, you choose to cite a proudly radical leftist source, in this case one with an established pedigree in Israel hatred, thereby demolishing your credibility
ReplyDeleteBut allow me to address your argument on its "merits." Being liked is way down the list of laudable qualities in a historic figure, compared to defense of principle (and country). Popularity is a fleeting and fickle thing. Ted Cruz is roundly despised in a the Senate, but he is exactly who the Republicans should have nominated
ReplyDeleteI am talking about the essence of love, not being liked. Kinda like Jesus and Nettie is no Jesus for sure.
ReplyDeleteI choose to cite whatever I choose to cite. Nettie is a hateful hateful human.
ReplyDeleteWhat or who does he hate?
ReplyDeleteWell, of course he hates the Arabs, so many factions of which I find it difficult to keep track of. His appearance is that of a tightly wound Nixonian type who insists on his way as the only way. He is unyielding and actually, they're all liars for not admitting their nuclear arsenal. He is an obvious elitest, hanging with the rich and powerful, but what else is new in a major world leader. He embodies all about the jews that have made them a detested race in humanity, while chosen by Jehovah as special. That stuff doesn't wash in the 21st century, thus you decry the end of Western Civilization. Mainly it's a strong sense I get of the man. I would cross the street to avoid walking past him.
ReplyDeleteI'll wait for Bogie's tell all which should be quite revealing.
ReplyDelete"I have lately found myself in difficult moral and professional controversies with the Prime Minister, a number of other ministers, and some members of Knesset," Ya'alon said at a Tel Aviv press conference after his announcement.
"To my great sorrow, they have taken over Israel, and the Likud movement, dangerous and extremist elements, that upend the house and threaten it. This is not the Likud movement that I joined."
Ya'alon has been in a protracted public argument with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the Israeli military. In recent weeks, Ya'alon has encouraged military generals to speak out about moral issues and the rules of engagement, even if they did not have the support of politicians. The statement was seen as criticism of Netanyahu.
Sad fact is that his replacement is another Nettie hard-line killer hawk.
Modern Israel has been beset by constant threats since its 1947 founding. Iran sponsors Hizbollah and Hamas - and put the slogan "Israel must be wiped out" on the side of the latest long=-range missile it tested. the Palestinian Authority names town squares in its territory after terrorists. Palestinian textbooks used in schools do not show Israel on maps. Benjamin Netanyahu is the lone voice among Western leaders making sure these facts remain front and center in discussions of the Middle East.
ReplyDeleteSome of your remarks about Jews in general come awfully close to antisemitism. Not to mention a palpable disdain for Western civilization
ReplyDeleteAnd I don't see what the number on this century has to do with the fact that the Jews are God's chosen people
ReplyDeleteScience has sort of shown that there's not this Jehovah in the ethers manipulating the weather to discipline the gentiles or chosen alike. Leave it to you, fellow gentile, to accuse me of anti-Semitism. That's a first, though admittedly I have not known too many jews personally. I might be anti-Zionist. As we know, Truman foresaw the sore troubles ahead in making Israel a separate state.
ReplyDelete“Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people” --Thomas Jefferson
Actually—and this was where I began to feel seriously uncomfortable—some such divine claim underlay not just 'the occupation' but the whole idea of a separate state for Jews in Palestine. Take away the divine warrant for the Holy Land and where were you, and what were you? Just another land-thief like the Turks or the British, except that in this case you wanted the land without the people. And the original Zionist slogan—'a land without a people for a people without a land'—disclosed its own negation when I saw the densely populated Arab towns dwelling sullenly under Jewish tutelage. You want irony? How about Jews becoming colonizers at just the moment when other Europeans had given up on the idea?”
ReplyDelete― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
“The first thing you notice, coming to Israel from the Arab world, is that you have left the most courteous region of the globe and entered the rudest. The difference is so profound that you're left wondering when the mutation in Semitic blood occurred, as though God parted the Red Sea and said: "Okay, you rude ones, keep wandering toward the Promised Land. The rest of you can stay here and rot in the desert, saying 'welcome, most welcome' and drowning each other in tea until the end of time.”
ReplyDelete― Tony Horwitz, Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia
“An anti-Semite used to mean a man who hated Jews. Now it means a man who is hated by Jews.”
ReplyDelete― Joseph Sobran
These last few comments are so foul, so vile, and present such a bleak worldview that I don't know where to begin in response.
ReplyDeleteMr. Hitchens, you see, you can't "take away the divine warrant."
ReplyDelete"Land thief." Hitch sure was capable of evil utterings.
There is no Divine Warrant, but it's nice to think that there is and you're a beneficiary.
ReplyDeleteHow do you sleep at night with such a bleak worldview?
ReplyDeleteWhat's bleak about my world view? I'm not the one continually carping about post-America and the supposed fact Western Civilization is kaput. God apparently allows me to get good sleep and to get straight to it, so I don't think my conscience bothers me much though you may think it should. Look, we entered the scientific age at least 2 centuries ago and we now take things on their proofs. There is absolutely no scientific proof of a Jehovah who chose a special race on earth for His beneficence. When men claim to be hearing directly from God these days, we call them mad.
ReplyDeleteChristians ARE God’s “Chosen People” – Not Jews. Christians are the “seed of Abraham.” This is what St Paul the Hebrew of Hebrews said over and over again. Here is one instance of St Paul’s many assertions that Christians NOT JEWS are the seed of Abraham: “If ye be Christ’s then are ye Abraham’s seed.” (Galatians 3:29).
ReplyDeleteWHEN JESUS CHRIST said to his disciples, “I have chosen you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should remain,” Christians were sealed as God’s Chosen Peoplefor all time. Jews can share in the Christians’ “chosen-ness.”
Jews can share in the Christians’ “chosen-ness.” Jews do not have to continue in a state of “accursedness” and “desolation.” Jesus Christ offers the Jews the chance to embrace Him and have His blessed name called upon them. Yes Jews if they will repent can be called Christians too.
http://www.realjewnews.com/?p=60
Anyhow, if you are not one of the chosen, why would you want to coddle the chosen? What's Jehovah going to do for you other than defeat you?
ReplyDeleteWhy does a good three-fourth's of the Bible's millennia-spanning action take place within the borders of modern Israel, and the rest of it within a small surrounding radius? It's because that's where God chose to reveal His plan to humankind.
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