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Iran, Israel, and America.
Apr. 16th, 2006 10:03 pmSo who could have predicted it? Today, this story ran: Iran to Give $50 Million to Hamas-Led Government.
What a surprise. Who could ever have imagined that Iran would fill in the gap when we pulled our funding? How could anyone have ever predicted this? Oh, apparently some idiot in Minnesota achieved this remarkable feat of prognostication back in January. Right after the election. I swear, this administration has met absolutely every expectation I have ever had of it, and I wish it would stop.
Has Bush done anything right?
Yes he has. The best thing he has done, and perhaps the only thing he should have done, was to enter into an accord with India. In a lot of ways, its the cold war all over again; but a nuclear, predominantly Hindu India might be a useful counterweight to a nuclear Iran.
Bush has done a lot wrong though. By putting Iran in the Axis of Evil, and then invading another AoE country, he probably gave a greater sense of urgency to the nuclear program there.
And as for Bush's stated intention to protect Israel, thanks a lot buddy. Now the Fred Phelps' and Noam Chomsky's have your personal assurance that any action we take in Iran is for the advancement of "Jewish Interests." But that's not the worst of it. The worst of it is that you have given your good friends on the religious right assurance that Israel will be the object of contention in the coming war between Christendom and Islam. This is not helping Israel.
Never in my life have I doubted Israel's ability to survive. Even Ahmadinejab's rants didn't shake that faith, but now that Bush has made those rants part of a dialectic of destruction, defining Israel as the bone of contention, I am, for the first time scared.
What a surprise. Who could ever have imagined that Iran would fill in the gap when we pulled our funding? How could anyone have ever predicted this? Oh, apparently some idiot in Minnesota achieved this remarkable feat of prognostication back in January. Right after the election. I swear, this administration has met absolutely every expectation I have ever had of it, and I wish it would stop.
Has Bush done anything right?
Yes he has. The best thing he has done, and perhaps the only thing he should have done, was to enter into an accord with India. In a lot of ways, its the cold war all over again; but a nuclear, predominantly Hindu India might be a useful counterweight to a nuclear Iran.
Bush has done a lot wrong though. By putting Iran in the Axis of Evil, and then invading another AoE country, he probably gave a greater sense of urgency to the nuclear program there.
And as for Bush's stated intention to protect Israel, thanks a lot buddy. Now the Fred Phelps' and Noam Chomsky's have your personal assurance that any action we take in Iran is for the advancement of "Jewish Interests." But that's not the worst of it. The worst of it is that you have given your good friends on the religious right assurance that Israel will be the object of contention in the coming war between Christendom and Islam. This is not helping Israel.
Never in my life have I doubted Israel's ability to survive. Even Ahmadinejab's rants didn't shake that faith, but now that Bush has made those rants part of a dialectic of destruction, defining Israel as the bone of contention, I am, for the first time scared.
