'If you abandon the Middle East, the Middle East will come running after you'
There's a lot in here with which I disagree. For instance, I believe that trading US action on Iran for 'Palestine' is a bad idea. I believe that things are and were nowhere near as rosy as Oren claims that they are and were between Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Obama. I don't believe that President Obama is such a great friend of Israel's. And I don't believe that the Women of the Wall fiasco is anywhere near as important as Oren (and his ideological buddies at Haaretz) make it out to be.
But on this point, he is dead on, and all Americans should take it to heart.
“And besides that, there is a great weariness now in America that is leading to a kind of neo-isolationism. In the past decade, this great nation has been through two difficult wars and a traumatic economic shakeup. So you have this exhaustion and cutbacks in the defense budget and a shrinking of the military and an aversion to any more overseas intervention. Lawmakers are asking why send money to Egypt or the Palestinians rather than invest that money in a new bridge. Americans are tired of the Middle East. They don’t want to hear about it, and they don’t want to know what is happening in Egypt and Syria and Iran. And what I am compelled to repeat here over and over is that when the helicopters took off from the Saigon embassy in 1975, the Vietcong did not chase the Americans all the way to Fifth Avenue. But it won’t be the same with the Middle East. You can’t run away from the Middle East, because if you run away from the Middle East, the Middle East will come running after you. I think President Obama understands this. Secretary of State [John] Kerry certainly understands this. But a mood of weariness and isolationism is making it difficult for them. America in 2013 is an America that is tired of the Middle East.”I'm not suggesting that the US intervene on the side of the rebels in Syria - it's far too late for that. But you can't run away. And ultimately, I believe that the only way that Iran can be completely stopped is military action under the lead of the United States. But for that to happen, Americans first have to understand that they have a stake in what goes on in this region, and it's not just because of your friendship with Israel.
Read the whole thing.
Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, Binyamin Netanyahu, Egyptian Revolution, Iranian nuclear threat, Michael Oren, Syrian uprising
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 3:45 PM
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"And ultimately, I believe that the only way that Iran can be completely stopped is military action under the lead of the United States."
I'm no geo-political or military genius but I also came to that conclusion years ago. Any reasonably well-informed, dispassionate, objective thinker should realize the Mullah Iran regime, implacably ambitious and implacably hostile to the US as well as Israel, has been at war against the US since 1979, when they came into power.
The question is: when will the American people and the US Govt. acknowledge that existing state of war and act accordingly and decisively?
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