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2014-08-03 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

U.S. struggles in Middle East, with fewer allies and less influence

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Posted by Fred 2014-08-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 That's what usually happens when you insist on spitting in your allies' face.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-08-03 03:00|| 2014-08-03 03:00|| Front Page Top

#2 The world smells weakness in America atm.

Do u have any decent Republican leadership left as the World needs it atm!

Posted by Paul D 2014-08-03 04:35|| 2014-08-03 04:35|| Front Page Top

#3 It will get worse when we are energy independent and have less and less reason to put up with the Middle East crap. While they are getting less and less money from USA they will have to deal with a weak Europe, and the less than kind regimes of China and Russia. Oh it is going to get worse.

Posted by Airandee 2014-08-03 07:26|| 2014-08-03 07:26|| Front Page Top

#4 Never had allies, but we did share a lot of common interests with one or two. Now those are rather tired of the interference in what they believe is their national existence by a bunch of clowns masquerading as competent people with academic letters of certification.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-08-03 08:55|| 2014-08-03 08:55|| Front Page Top

#5 The diminished influence is because the rest of the world has learned that American liberals will not fight for ANYTHING. There is no cause, there is no threat worth fighting for. That is why the empty suit and his minions are dismantling the military, why have a military you will not use? We have more bureaucrats in the Department of Defense than we have soldiers, sailors, or airmen on active duty.

The European liberals learned that occasionally a cause is worth fighting for...of course having the slums full of fanatics does put a punctuation mark on that.

The end result will be another mass casualty event, i.e., some tin hat fanatic Muslem terrorist act, and a war in which we are ill equipped and unprepared to follow. The Republican president will be blamed for the failures of the military and so it goes.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2014-08-03 10:18|| 2014-08-03 10:18|| Front Page Top

#6 American liberals will not fight for ANYTHING

other than stuffing the ballot box!

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-08-03 10:34|| 2014-08-03 10:34|| Front Page Top

#7 In Israel, hostile media reports, apparently fanned by ~~Israeli officials~~ reality, harshly attacked the U.S. secretary of state as he left the region

Posted by Frank G 2014-08-03 10:42|| 2014-08-03 10:42|| Front Page Top

#8 Yokay, I'll bite, WASN'T THAT THE OWG GLOBALISTS' INTENTION, ALBEIT PCORRECTLY-DENIABLY???

Ditto vee Rising Iran, Putinist Russia, Rising China, etc. AKA Globalist desired OWG Co-Superpwers???

To once again paraph KRAUTHAMMER [ala Oliver Stone's "JFK"] = "SAY IT WID ME, AMERIKA, DON'T YOU GET IT - ITS A RIDDLE, MAN, ITS A MYSTERY WRAPPED AROUND AN ENIGMA"!

Paradox + Hyperdox + Coincidence + ... ...

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-08-03 20:33|| 2014-08-03 20:33|| Front Page Top

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