So how do you feel about the convicted spy, Pollard?
National security is based on capabilities, not present intentions, of other countries, Israel included. 'Good guys' is an entirely relative thing, the Finns were 'good guys' in 1939 and 'bad guys' in 1942, without changing anything fundamental about themselves. Same with the Commies in 1943 vs. 1948. There are 'Allies,' 'Enemies,' and 'Neutrals' in international defense, and allies are often just as dirty as the enemies. If Israel thought it was in their best interests to f*ck us, they'd do it in a heartbeat. Since nobody else, at least nobody else with any resources and a UN Security Council permanent seat, gives them the same level of unquestioning support we do, it just isn't in their own current best interests to do that for the foreseeable future.
Let's extend this principle, how would all you hard-over Protestants with a mystical attachment to Israel feel if the guy was a Catholic and said the same thing about the Pope and Vatican? Most of you would be shitting sharp-edged bricks.
I'm curious--why do you feel like bringing Pollard into this? I thought this thread was about Adelson. Is it because Adelson didn’t fit the trope you were devising here, you saw that comparing a guy who merely spoke to a mass murderer didn't work and you needed a handy someone to blame with some negative connection to Israel from the US's standpoint, any negative connection? That’s a rhetorical question.
It’s also interesting to me that you expanded this discussion into a discussion of Israel in general, and not Adelson—I brought up Israel itself only to show that, at least, he selected an ally. And, at most, he’s guilty of having violated his American soldier’s oath in his heart, ie, “mental reservations.†But you couldn’t leap fast enough to conflate Adelson with an Islamic terrorist.
By your same reasoning, then the US would do the same to Israel in a heartbeat. ****s them over. And so would the UK, or any other country in the world. Seems to me you’re looking for any way to make Israel into a leech and not a friend. Do you have a particular reason for wanting to do so? Or can I take it that that is just your sincere belief? And I'd hardly call US support of Israel "unquestioning."
I’m not a Protestant.
The whole religion-thing in the last paragraph is an apple to the orange of this story. You yourself said this was about national security and national interests, and in that venue neither the Vatican nor Protestantism generally wield the slightest power in the modern day.
But please, say more. I find this extremely interesting. I like to get to know the sorts of people I’m grouped with by association on a political forum. It’s just good to know what kind of person you’re dealing with, don’t you think?
