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To: ig who wrote (175101)	7/31/2006 8:44:43 AM
From: el_gaviero	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793750

I can’t help but think that Israel is making a serious perhaps even fatal mistake. As the article by David Warren points out, morale counts for a lot --- in fact in war it counts for just about everything. Israel has shown herself to be a dark place, where pert and beautiful young girls, using tubes of lipstick, write message of hate on artillery shells that kill Lebanese children. No people can stand images of such a nature and maintain their esprit de corps, unless they have given up on the project of civilization. The truth of the matter is that Israel has become isolated from the rest of the world, and has only one source of power: politicians in the United States, whom she has corrupted and turned in prostitutes. This corruption has pulled the entire political process in the United States away from its core purpose, which in one way or another, however inefficient, is to pursue the interests of the people of the United States. Such is not happening now, and because it is not, vast and difficult problems build up and loom close by on the horizon. While we (in the US) waste billions of dollars a week fighting or subsidizing wars in Afgan., Iraq and Lebanon, we are not dealing with a huge energy problem (unlike China and Russia for example who are making such headway as is possible in this area); we are not dealing with a huge immigration problem (soon to turn us into the next Yugoslavia); we are not dealing with rising corruption in our own economy; we are not dealing with the hollowing out of the middle class; we are not dealing with current account deficits; we are not dealing with a government that simply does not consider the consequences of its actions. A problem ignored is not a problem solved (most of the time). Rather it is one that builds and becomes worse. Someday in the not too distant future all of the problems that we are not facing will arrive on our doorstep. When they do, watch out --- the whole Inside-the-Beltway house of cards will collapse, and the current crop of politicos will become history. You will also see explosions of anger among vast sectors of the USA population that will stand your hair on end. I can flat out guarantee that some of that anger is going to be directed at Israel and the Jews, the principal architects of the current Beltway Scene. When the day of reckoning comes, and reality moves in for a long visit, where is Israel going to be? She has put all of her eggs in one sleazy basket, made up of bought-off politicos in the USA (which the Israelis leadership itself views with utter contempt, as well they should). The Arabs will not destroy Israel (except as causa proxima). The Israelis will do it to themselves.