As Iran gets closer and closer to a nuclear weapon and test fires missiles that could reach Israel, Barack Obama does nothing. Worse, he has tried to tie the hands of our ally Israel while they face mortal peril. Obama’s promise of hope has exploded. I hope that Israel will not share the same fate.
The Explosion of Hope
September 29, 2009 at 3:37 am
What I don't understand is why so many Americans ring their hands and salivate at the thought that Iran will nuke Israel. This will NEVER HAPPEN. The Infidel has 3 main centers of pilgrimage; Mecca, Medina and Al Quds (Jerusalem) in order of primacy. If Shi'ite Iran (think "Catholic") they to destroy the Dome of the Rock mosque, the Infidel population of Israel/Palestine or polute the surrounding Infidel nations with nuclear fallout, Iran itself would be wiped off the map by Sunni (think "Protestant") Arab nations in an exercise of solidarity not witnessed since the days of Mohammed himself.
I often wonder if certain segments in the US use Israel like the Arabs use Palestinians; a rallying cry with no real substance to it.
September 29, 2009 at 3:54 am
BL
2 words.
Tel Aviv.
September 29, 2009 at 8:30 am
1] Didn't we fall for that "weapons of mass destruction" BS before? (Remember? Saddam didn't have any. It was a LIE from top to bottom.)
2] Isn't it time we stopped helping the Zionists defend their stolen ground?
3] Wouldn't the best bulwark against Iranian/Islamic aggression be a strong, secular Irak? (Wait — too late! We destroyed Irak to get her oil — damn!)
September 29, 2009 at 11:39 am
So Dutch, we should never worry about anyone having WMD's because we might have been wrong once before. Yeah, that makes sense.
We destroyed Iraq to get her oil? What?! How's that working out for us? Oil? Really?
September 29, 2009 at 12:40 pm
It's been like putting a spoiled child in charge of the baby.
Thanks for the share. When will America open their eyes?
September 29, 2009 at 12:52 pm
I think The Dutchman is right. You don't storm your neighbor's house because you think he does something illegal there. Worrying about it is something completely different.
September 29, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Dutch-
Stolen ground? What is your reference point? Think beyond sixty year ago. Think beyond 500 years ago. Think back. Way back.
September 29, 2009 at 2:58 pm
Using Dutch's logic, we need to then give the U.S back to the Indians. It would only be fair to not perpetuate and continue acts of aggression for, land, oil, agricultural resources, water resources.
September 29, 2009 at 3:01 pm
I can't think of any reason to have confidence that Obama will protect Israel and the comments I've seen calling Israel "stolen ground" just makes me ill.
I'm hoping that if Obama won't take action that Israel will. They can't afford to sit around waiting for Obama to come back from his trip to strong-arm the Olympic Committee for Chicago. It's Iran that needs the strong-arming.
September 29, 2009 at 3:20 pm
I'm with BL on this. The Iranian regime is not M.A.D. enough to take it that far. Rather it hopes to use any nuclear capability as political leverage through usual threats and intimidation. Obama's playing it cool and I think he's right on this one. Start getting worked up into a frenzy of fear and you're playing their game.
September 29, 2009 at 4:13 pm
Yeah, Ahamadinejad has shown himself be nothing but rational.(Sarc off)
September 29, 2009 at 6:39 pm
I am a non-Catholic Christian who lurks here but I've just got to say this video is brilliant.
September 29, 2009 at 8:02 pm
Patrick – two more words "too close". I'm guessing you've never been to Israel, but Tel Aviv is just about 40 miles from Jerusalem. The damage radius from a nuclear blast would be 30+ miles/1psi. The fallout radius would be up to 3+ times that. You could argue that "well, maybe Tel Aviv is too close, so they could pick an area further away from Jerusalem". The fact is, Israel is TINY. I mean Miniscule. There simply is no point on the country that you could hit which would not impact the Arab populations of the surrounding areas, either by direct impact or fallout.
As Mike says, you are pretty much playing into Ahmadinejad's hands by carrying on this fantasy. He's crazy, but not stupid. If Israel were truly worried about the situation, they'd have taken care of it by now.
September 29, 2009 at 9:58 pm
Now, this is "Faux News" and the Republicans and what not and what not and what not, so if it's all outside of your comfort bubble I understand, but please consider the first story when you type "Weapons of Mass Destruction found in Iraq" into google.
If anything, we should all be angry at Bush for playing "Daddy" and not making it very well know what they've found/are finding in Iraq.
September 29, 2009 at 10:11 pm
Let’s get this straight, the people who said there were WMD’s in Irak weren’t wrong — THEY WERE LYING! And, at last count, 4345 American boys have DIED for that LIE. So, when I hear the same Zionist/Big-Oil/Evangelical crowd saying that yet another oil-rich state has those naughty “WMD’s,” I think the burden of proof is on them. Let them PROVE that Iran has nukes (and a rumor of possible purchases of yellow cake doesn’t count), that Iran has some way of delivering them to the USA (like — an ICBM) or against our REAL allies (like Europe or Japan), and then MAYBE we can talk about doing something about it.
You know, bears often go after honey by busting up bee’s nests. They don’t always get the honey, but they ALWAYS get stung. Similarly, Bush and Co. thought they could just waltz into Irak, defeat their conventional forces, and then keep all the oil — too bad for them that it didn’t work out that way, but that was there plan.
“It's been like putting a spoiled child in charge of the baby.” Yes — brilliant!
Okay, let’s talk about imperialism. Imperialism can NEVER be justified, but it can succeed.
The European imperialism in North America succeeded in displacing the native populations and occupying the land by the usual methods; genocide, deportation, and displacement. Similarly, English imperialism in Australia has succeeded too, and neither can be undone.
Because the French were not willing to resort to genocide after the Battle of Algiers, they lost Algeria and had to return to France. (Now, of course, the Algerians are colonizing France and we shall see what happens …)
Because the Zionists are not willing to resort to genocide on a large scale (so far, anyway), and because Palestinian fertility far outstrips that of the Zionists, Israel will have more Arab citizens than Jewish citizens by 2030, thus ending the idea of a “Jewish state.” All the Palestinians have to do is sit and wait and the prize will fall into their hands. Moral issues aside, we are backing a losing horse.
And why should it make anyone “ill” to hear Israel called “stolen ground?” David Ben-Gurion himself admitted it! “Sure God promised it to us, but what does that matter to them? There has been anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see only one thing: We have come here and stolen their country."
September 29, 2009 at 10:32 pm
Zionist/Big-Oil/Evangelical
Your tinfoil hat is showing, Dutchman.
September 30, 2009 at 6:55 pm
"Your tinfoil hat is showing, Dutchman."
That's right — if you can't argue the facts, just call your opponent crazy and you won't have to answer him with reason.
When Milt Rosenberg couldn't meet Kevin Phillips' arguments on the causes of the war, he just stopped having him on his show and then referred to him as as "extremist" whenever his name came up. That's just about the same as calling him "crazy," isn't it?
September 30, 2009 at 7:59 pm
Yes, we all know there is absolutely NO relationship between Zionists and Evangelicals. So, whoever uses the two together must be crazy…
*rolls eyes*
September 30, 2009 at 9:33 pm
You're still crazy.
September 30, 2009 at 10:05 pm
and you're an idiot. Gee! Thanks for bringing the discussion down to a 2nd grade level. Classy.