Helen Thomas and Israel are only issues for me
because our government and media make them issues. If Jews and Mohammedans want to slaughter
each other for all eternity over the Levant
that is their business (as a Christian I would pray for peace and more importantly
that God would save their souls).
However, the powers that be have decided that it is our
business. Criticism of Israeli policy is
a forbidden viewpoint with tangible consequences even among a so-called free
press. Our tax dollars fund Israel's war
machine even as our nation hurtles into bankruptcy. Our lopsided meddling brings jihadist
terrorism onto the American civilian population. We exhaust our military fighting wars against
enemies who hate us for taking sides in their regional disputes. If Iran
eventually makes nuclear weapons they are not doing it to wipe Israel off the map; they are doing it to deter
the U.S.
from invading their country.
I conclude with the wisdom of our Founding Fathers:
But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy.
She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the
champion and vindicator only of her own.
-- John Quincy Adams
Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to
pursue a different course. If we remain one people under an efficient
government. the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from
external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the
neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when
belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us,
will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or
war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel.
Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit
our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with
that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace
and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or
caprice?
It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances
with any portion of the foreign world; so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty
to do it; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to
existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private
affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let
those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But, in my opinion, it is
unnecessary and would be unwise to extend them.
Taking care always to keep ourselves by suitable establishments on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.
-- George Washington
Edited by: Paleocon