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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (122269)12/28/2003 11:13:58 AM
From: GST  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
The only problem is your bogus logic. It is not all right for a country to merely "feel threatened" to justify attacking others -- there must be some meaningful basis to believe that an attack is imminent to invoke self-defense. Israel is already living on or over the edge, having alienated most every country on earth. Israel has exploited the openness of the American political system and achieved an unrivaled degree of influence in Washington -- to the point where it distorts if not outright compromises US national security. Israel alone is above reproach -- anybody who criticize Israeli policy is blasted as a Jew hater. It is outrageous for our foreign policy to be subsidiary to whatever Israel wants from us. Israel has no right to steal land. Israel has no right to flaunt international law and UN Resolutions. Israel has no right to take US military aid and financial support for granted. And Israel has no right to send our troops to war on its behalf. We live in a democracy called the United States of America. Our elected officials are responsible to us -- US citizens -- first and foremost, and not to Israelis. Saudi Arabia is another country with undue influence -- but that is another story. The bottom line is this: Neither Israel nor the United States has the right to launch unilateral preemptive attacks on other countries. To take the attitude "ya, well who is going to stop us" simply underlines the moral bankruptcy of both US and Israeli policy. A policy based purely on force is a policy no better than the policy of the Soviet Union at its worst. The only people who can stop this are the American people, and with the propaganda machine in full operation it will be hard for people to see through all the smoke coming out of Washington. We launched a war without any basis in international law and/or behavior acceptable to the international community -- and we did it in no small part on behalf of Israel. This extreme foreign policy bias must stop.
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