It should be obvious that
a) massive retaliation against Iraq has little benefit in deterring any of the thousands of individual suicide terrorists in the US and other countries. As Rumsfeld calls them, they are "undeterrables". In fact, it only increases recruitment, clearly, as the CIA reports.
b) Disregarding our foreign policy actions wrt Israel (or India in the Paki/India conflict which has ties to AQ) that spawn further destruction of Americans is probably a bad idea, don't you think?
If so, then the facts of involvement of our gov't with other foreign nationals is a big deal. That is not appeasement. That is called common sense, and preventing the blood-feuds from infecting our country, that we see overseas. Appeasement would be letting Israel manipulate American policy, for their own purposes and as a client mercenary for US purposes, if that is what is happening.
How about this: Do you think massive attacks on some particular Arab country will help prevent, or promote these blood-feuds from further infecting this country?
As far as Perle being Israeli, that is only significant if the terrorists who murdered him knew of that fact. We won't know, because they've been eliminated also, and these issues are soft-peddled.
As far as anti-Semetic, I've spent time in Israel in kibbutz, with the gov't, and later as a visitor. My impression of the Israeli people is that they are a wonderful culture, and an insane gov't. Much like our own, at the moment. |
