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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran
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To: philv who wrote (14357)1/30/2007 6:06:04 PM
From: sea_urchin  Read Replies (2) of 22250
 
Phil > Americans did nothing, just sat on their hands and watched Israel get its ass kicked. Wow, that is just not credible.

Yes, it is a different slant on the situation -- and that's Xymphora's forte. He's arguing that the US should have gone into Syria in an attempt to relieve pressure on Israel and they didn't.

"Israel was supposed to win easily in Lebanon. When it didn’t, the neocon/Israeli Plan II was to have the Americans enter to assist Israel, preferably by attacking Syria on the pretense that Hezbollah’s missiles were coming from Syria. As you will remember, the doom and gloom in the neocon ranks was occasioned by the fact that the Americans did nothing, just sat on their hands and watched Israel get its ass kicked. There were even dark conspiracy theories raised about how the Americans tricked Israel into a disaster in Lebanon, by encouraging it and giving it the green light, and then failing to support it."

It is a point of view and it may, indeed, have substance. He's also arguing that the US will let Israel down again with Iran -- and I believe there's more than a little substance to that. Indeed, Bush and the neocons are finding that their pro-Zionist views concerning Iran are becoming more and more unpopular in the US.
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