Good Column.
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 6:47 AM, Brian Bednarek <[email protected]> wrote: > *What Would Ike Do?* > *By Patrick J. Buchanan* > > [image: What Wolud Ike Do?] > <http://buchanan.org/blog/what-would-ike-do-15756> > > *Friday - March 20, 2015* > > In November 1956, President Eisenhower, enraged he had not been forewarned > of their invasion of Egypt, ordered the British, French and Israelis to get > out of Suez and Sinai. They did as told. > > How far we have fallen from the America of Ike and John Foster Dulles has > been on painful display this March. > > An Israeli leader told a joint session of Congress that President Obama's > nuclear deal with Iran is stupid and dangerous and must be rejected. > Congress gave him 40 ovations. > > Bibi Netanyahu then went home and told the world there will be no > Palestinian state, and was re-elected in a smashing victory. > > "Perhaps it's time for Americans, especially those in the White House, to > recognize this new reality of Israeli politics," says The Wall Street > Journal. We should restore "Israeli confidence in U.S. support." > > Excuse me? Who is the senior partner here? Who needs whom more? > > Israel is entitled to choose its own leaders, who are entitled to make > their own policy. But that goes for us as well. > > We are today headed for a collision with Israel as serious as Suez '56, > and we are about to see what Barack Obama is made of. > > The days of self-delusion are over. For was there ever a doubt where Bibi > stood? In 1994, he denounced the Oslo Accords in a speech interrupted by > chants that Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was a "traitor." > > Did anyone think Bibi, who opposed Ariel Sharon withdrawal of Israeli > settlers from Gaza, was going to withdraw tens of thousands of Jewish > settlers from Judea and Samaria, share Jerusalem with a Palestinian state, > or allow the return of Arab refugees to what Bibi says is the "Jewish > state"? > > "Arab voters are coming out in droves to the polls. Left-wing > organizations are busing them out," said Bibi on his Facebook page in > Hebrew, according to a translation by Haaretz. > > That's the real Bibi. We have clarity now. > > What should Obama do? > > Drop the petulance, call and congratulate Bibi on his election and tell > him we are proceeding with the Iran deal — if we conclude it accords with > our interests. And if he attempts to sabotage or scuttle the deal, he > should expect political and economic retaliation. > > Bibi is looking out for Israel first. America needs a president like Ike > who will start looking out for America first. > > It appears we are at a moment of truth worldwide. > > Our freeloading friends in NATO, only four of whom spend 2 percent of GDP > on defense, and some are cutting that, should be told that the days of > Uncle Sam carrying the lion's share of their defense are over. > > Ukraine and Crimea are on their continent not ours. > > The Soviet Empire is dead; the Soviet Union has ceased to exist. A Russia > smaller than it has been in centuries, with half the population the USSR > had at the end of the Cold War, is primarily their problem not ours. > > If the Germans, Brits, French and Italians will not man up and pay for > their defense, let them pay tribute to powerful neighbors the way other > fat, rich and feeble nations have historically done. > > The Chinese are launching an Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank as a > rival to the U.S.-dominated World Bank. Despite our pleas, Britain, France, > Italy and Germany are rushing to sign on as charter members. South Korea > and Australia may follow. > > Our allies are looking to pick up contracts for the construction projects > for the new Chinese "silk road" from Asia to Europe. > > The AIIB will have $50 billion in startup cash, a pittance to a China > sitting on a hoard of $3 to $4 trillion in cash reserves, from decades of > huge trade surpluses run at the expense of the United States. > > Virtually all our Asian allies do a larger share of their trade with China > than with us. They want to buy from and sell to China, and stay in > Beijing's good graces. But if menaced by China, they want the United States > obligated by treaty to come and fight for them. > > One understands why this is in their interests. But why is it in ours? > > Nor is the Middle East any different. > > The Turks, Saudis and Gulf Arabs want us to finish off ISIS, whom they > were lately aiding, but also Hezbollah, Syria and Iran. They want us to > fight them all, but disagree on whom the Americans should fight first. > > Last week, John Kerry said he might talk with Syria's Bashar Assad, and > was denounced by the Saudis. The State Department backed off. But who are > the Saudis to be telling us to whom we may talk when coping with the > Islamic State? > > In the Eisenhower era, Dulles spoke of an "agonizing reappraisal" of our > alliances, a cost-benefit analysis of what America was getting out of them, > compared with what we were contributing to them. > > Is there a single U.S. alliance today that would survive a cost-benefit > analysis like that? > > *Read More At: http://buchanan.org/blog/what-would-ike-do-15756 > <http://buchanan.org/blog/what-would-ike-do-15756>* > > *Visit Pat Buchanan's Official Website at Buchanan.org > <http://buchanan.org/blog/>* > -- Sign up for Pat's email updates, follow on Twitter, FaceBook and > Pat's YouTube Channel.... Plus all of his syndicated columns and more! > > > -- > brine > http://brineb.blogspot.com/ > > -- > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ > * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. > * Read the latest breaking news, and more. > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "PoliticalForum" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
