To: Bill Harmond who wrote (153501 ) 2/23/2003 9:10:48 AM From: craig crawford Respond to as long as y'all are bickering about the usefulness of generals...Washington's Farewell Address 1796 yale.edu [the U.S. for israel] produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation [israel] , facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former [the U.S.] into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter [israel] without adequate inducement or justification. It leads also to concessions to the favorite nation [israel] of privileges [billions in direct and military aid every year] denied to others [arabs] which is apt doubly to injure the nation making the concessions [the U.S.] ; by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained [U.S. taxpayer money] , and by exciting jealousy, ill-will, and a disposition to retaliate, in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld. [arabs] And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens [zionist christians and jews] , (who devote themselves to the favorite nation) [israel] facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation. [this would include israel] So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop. Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none; or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities. 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.
