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Originally Posted by helterskelter808
I don't see why we should have to wait. We get nothing from Israel. They are not sitting on anything we want or need. In fact they're an enormous drain on our economy, and have caused us nothing but problems with countries which do have resources that we want and need. The only reason for our ridiculously unqualified support is their enormous political influence here.
Such unqualified support is not just bad for us either, it's bad for Israel. Since they know they can rely on us for anything, whatever they do, there is absolutely no incentive for them to behave rationally or sanely with the countries around them.
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If we ended all support for Israel tomorrow I would be fine with it.
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Iran has had a civilization and culture dating back thousands of years before the US even existed. In the last 200 years Iran has attacked zero countries. How many have we attacked? What's so peace-loving about our history?
The entire history, from birth and creation to the expansion of the USA, to becoming a superpower after WWII and then the only real superpower 20 years ago, is one of violence and war. And, given the enormous homicide rate, we can't even say it's just the Government.
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I know we aren't innocent in all of this. Iran has supported plenty of terrorist activities. They were/are the primary funding source for the Islamic Jihad.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_and_state_terrorism are a few of their greatest hits.
While they may not have actually attacked a country with an army or occupied a place, they are not some innocent, peace loving country.
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The fact that something is widely reported/repeated doesn't make it true. What he talks about is the (Zionist) regime in Israel, ie, the political system/Government.
Nobody says we're trying to wipe out all Arabs or Muslims from the map when we overthrow and attack Arab Governments, in our 'regime changes', so it's pure baloney to pretend he's saying that about Israel.
Even if he was, though, so what? People say shit all the time. What matters is what he can actually do. Israel has the fourth largest army in the world, arguably the second best supplied military, thanks to American and German taxpayers, and hundreds of nukes. The fact they can still con sane, sensible people, which I believe you are, into thinking they're under threat is ridiculous.
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If Hillary Clinton gave a speech in which she said, "As President Obama said, Iran should be wiped off the map." the shit storm that would come from it would likely cost her her job and the republicans would rain hell down on Obama, but we let this guy just spout shit because. . . well. . . why?
You are what you say. If you don't want people to think you are some kind of crazy rogue nation don't go around saying crazy rogue shit.