Doesn't it bother you to continually demonstrate that you are irreperably stupid? Of course being irreperably stupid means you are too stupid to realize how stupid you really are. If ignorance is infact bliss, you must be one happy son of a bitch.
On Feb 17, 10:50 pm, Cold Water <[email protected]> wrote: > Can Israel make it alone? > By James Lewis > > In 1938 the West abandoned Czechoslovakia and Poland to Nazi aggression, > signaling so much weakness that Hitler immediately grasped that he could now > send his tanks against France and the rest of Europe. At Yalta, in 1945, the > United States and Britain abandoned Eastern Europe and half of Germany to > Stalin's armies. China was left to Mao Zedong, who ended up killing an > estimated 40 million of his own people in various utopian massacres. In 1975 > we left Vietnam and Cambodia to the tender mercies of Pol Pot and Ho Chi > Minh, poster kids of the American Left. Several million dead people later, in > 1979, Jimmy Carter abandoned Iran to Ayatollah Khomeini and his torturers, > one of whom is now President of Iran. Later this year Iran may explode its > first bomb. The Obama administration will stand by and smile. > > Now the US and our allies cannot control everything in the world, not by any > stretch of the imagination. We were able to defeat Soviet imperialism with a > true bipartisan consensus, from Truman to Reagan. But that took half a > century. It also took tens of millions of clear-thinking Americans, Europeans > and Asians, who were willing to recognize evil and stand up to it. Still, our > record of standing by besieged allies is decidedly mixed, especially when > Democrats take power. Barack Obama is no Harry S Truman. > > Israel's planners have to be thinking that with Obama and his crowd in power, > the United States may simply pull out the rug from the democratic and modern > state of Israel. > > Caroline Glick of the Jerusalem Post has listed some of the moves that have > already been made by America-hating regimes -- just in the first weeks of the > Obama Presidency. > > She writes, > > Since coming into office, Obama has repeatedly tried to build an alliance > with the "newly emboldened" Russian bear. A week after entering office, he > announced that he hoped to negotiate a nuclear disarmament agreement with > Russia that would reduce the US's nuclear stockpiles by 80 percent. ... > Responding to these American signals, the Russians proceeded to humiliate > Washington. Last week President Dmitry Medvedev hosted Kyrgyzstan's President > ... in Moscow. After their meeting the two announced that ...Kyrgyzstan will > close the US Air Force base at Manas which serves American forces in > Afghanistan. > Clear enough, right? But not to our media, who just haven't bothered to > notice, choosing instead to stage the most butt-kissing display of > presidential worship in history. > > Last Friday, the Pakistanis tested Obama. The Supreme Court freed > Pakistan's Dr. Strangelove -- A.Q. Khan -- from the house arrest he had been > under since his nuclear proliferation racket was exposed by the Libyans in > 2004. ... Khan's release casts a dark shadow on Obama's plan to dismantle > much of America's nuclear arsenal, because with him free, the prospect that > Pakistan is back in the proliferation business becomes quite real. ... > > Pakistan's open contempt for the US and its weakness in the face of the > Taliban's takeover of the country has direct consequences for the US's > mission in Afghanistan ..... This week the Taliban bombed a bridge on the > Khyber Pass along the Pakistani border with Afghanistan that served as a > supply line to US forces in Afghanistan. > > You probably didn't hear that on ABC News Tonight. > > How about Iran? > > Obama came into office waving an enormous olive branch in Teheran's > direction... (But) the regime has become more outspoken in its hostility > toward the US. ... . It has announced it will only agree to direct talks with > Washington if it pulls US forces out of the Middle East, abandons Israel and > does nothing to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. ... In all of > its actions, Iran has gone out of its way to embarrass Obama and humiliate > America. And Obama, for his part, has continued to embrace Teheran as his > most sought-after negotiating partner. > > Apparently if somebody spits right in your face and you pretend not to > notice, it's just as if it never happened. That's not true in Southside > Chicago, and it's not true in the Middle East. It only works that way in the > liberal imagination. > > Just look at the world. Putin is arm-twisting the Ukraine. He has cut off > natural gas supplies to Germany and its neighbors in the middle of a bad > winter. He is now in control of all the pipelines that supply Germany --- > which is constantly sabotaged by its own Greens, who refuse to develop > nuclear power plants. > > And the US? Obama doesn't want to know. Neither does Hillary, who just flew > off to Asia. Nor does Joe Biden, who now competes with Hillary and the > National Security Council for control over foreign policy. The President is > busy trying to peddle a trillion dollar payoff to Democrat Machines all over > the country. Americans seem to be in a daze. > > We are being tested by the bullies in the world. We are failing all their > tests so far. Bullies keep testing and testing until they meet resistance, > and there is no hard muscle in this flabby administration. It goes against > their most cherished beliefs. > > If you look at the world the way Israel must be doing, the question is, can > you survive with a flabby America, or even with an America that turns against > you? > > The basic answer is "Yes," but at a stiff price. Israel is a fairly advanced > nuclear power, and no such power has ever been overthrown by any other. The > risk is just too great. Nuke-armed Pakistan is always on the edge of > crumbling, and it is now believed that its intelligence service helped > Islamic terrorists who gunned down hundreds of civilians in Mumbai a few > months ago. India may threaten to retaliate, but it can't do much in the face > of Pakistan's missiles armed with weapons of mass destruction. Pakistan is > therefore using its nuclear power to create a safe haven for Islamic terror > assaults on the Hindu nation next door. > > After 9/11 the Pakistan government was sufficiently afraid of George W. Bush > to allow American strikes against Al Qaida on its territory. But Pakistan has > pulled back since General Musharraf was driven from power -- in good part by > American pressure, along with outrageous and ignorant public insults from > Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. So Musharraf is gone, and the Pakistan > military and terror-support apparatus is now free to keep attacking > majority-Hindu India. It may be their way of keeping their own militants > under control. Or maybe they just believe in sticking it to the infidels, > wherever they may be. > > This is not, as the Obama administration would like to believe, just a > quarrel about the Kashmir. It's all part of the worldwide jihad -- like > communism and Nazism, Islam is inherently imperialistic. > > When Iran gets its bomb, the Mullahs will feel free to sponsor terrorism in > Saudi Arabia, as Ayatollah Khomeini did, or wherever they can stir up trouble > in the Arab world. Iran's proxies have been launching missiles at civilians > in Israel for years. They came close to hitting the nuclear power plant at > Dimona in this last round, as much of a red line for Israel as anything > imaginable. Next time they could easily hit that plant. What would Obama do? > > The death of Israel is only a part of what the Mullahs want; they really > crave control over Mecca and Medina, the holiest cities in Islam. The Saudis > have ruled Arabia for only a hundred years, a fleeting moment in time by the > millennial reckoning of fanatics. Why should the Arabian Peninsula be > dominated by the despised Sunni Arabs, when seventy million Shiites in Iran > are only fifty miles across the Gulf, and will soon be armed with nukes? The > Persian Empire never stopped at the Gulf. Why should the new Shiite Caliphate > stop there? > > That's why the Saudis are looking to make peace between the Arabs and Israel. > It is also why they financed Pakistan's nuclear program, and why they will do > the same for Egypt when the time comes. They see a deadly threat to their > survival, even if the American government doesn't. > > So Iran's nuclear weapons will be used to create impregnable havens for > terror groups. If Obama allows Iran to dominate the Gulf to "satisfy its > ambitions to become a regional power," as the Left likes to say, you can > fully expect the Mullahs to take the logical next step. > > Nations have no permanent friends, only permanent interests -- like survival. > If the United States abandons the Jewish State, Jerusalem will have to seek > new alliances. It may feel driven to conduct an open nuclear test if Iran > does. That's what happened with India and Pakistan ten years ago. Israel is > working with India -- and so far, the US -- on advanced antimissile defenses. > India has a natural affinity with the Israelis, as a majority-Hindu state > that has been fighting jihadi terror since 1948. Historically, India > experienced constant aggression from Muslim powers. China and Russia have a > long horror of Islamic invasion. If survival is at stake, expect Israel to > make whatever alliances it can. > > Other nations that rely on us --Taiwan, Singapore, Poland, the Czech > Republic, the Ukraine, Georgia, the Baltic States -- will also see the > handwriting on the wall. Not all of them will collapse. > > Western Europe may be crumble to domestic Muslims, as the Geert Wilders case > suggests. But Russia has a thousand years of fighting Islamic aggression, and > has just carried out a vicious war against jihadi rebels in Chechnya. China > also fears Muslim invaders and rebels. Even Australia is showing real spirit > in the fight against this very ancient fascist ideology. > > In a decade or so civilized nations will have adequate anti-missile defenses, > and better protection against smuggled dirty bombs. Bio-identification will > make it easier to pinpoint dangerous people trying to enter the country. But > we may have to pay a big price in individual freedom. > > These calculations are surely going through the minds of politicians and > strategists around the world. If the Obama administration walks away from > democratic allies, we will see a fast reshuffling of the alliances we've seen > since World War I. > > Obama is the most radical leftist ever to occupy the White House. He will > teach us many lessons, but he is not likely to sway American culture for very > long -- including our admiration for small and besieged democracies. If > anything, he will end up reminding a new generation why the United States > fought the Cold War. There will come a time for another Ronald Reagan, a > president who combines our deepest values with a coherent national strategy. > > But that's over the long term. In the next four to eight years Israel will > have to think very hard about how to survive without the United States. > > Page Printed > from:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/02/can_israel_make_it_alone.html --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
