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| Israel-Palestine |
| BUSH: US is obliged to support its 'old friend' Israel |
| 2004-07-19 |
| EFL The US has a responsibility to defend the State of Israel, which is "an old friend" and a "democratic country," US President George W. Bush told the French daily Le Figaro in an interview published Saturday. He told the French daily. That will get thier panties in a wad. Bush's affirmed commitment to Israel came in response to a question about whether successive "US presidents are obliged to defend Israel at every occasion." We are not just obliged. We are morally obligated. |
| Posted by:Dragon Fly |
| #6 Correction, Anonymous4021, they can keep their word -- to terrorists ... I remember the leftists of France complaining about the allowed extradition of a Red Brigade "bloke" ... |
| Posted by: Edward Yee 2004-07-20 1:20:50 AM |
| #5 "Defending and old friend" is naturally something so alien to the French it just won't register. What an exotic and incomprehensible species this easygoing hegemonic beast from Texas must be in French eyes. |
| Posted by: Verlaine 2004-07-19 8:14:54 PM |
| #4 W, just giving me one more reason to vote for him, again! ;) |
| Posted by: RJB in JC MO 2004-07-19 6:46:15 PM |
| #3 It's that whole pesky, being a man of your word... but I doubt the French understand such a simplistic concept. |
| Posted by: Anonymous4021 2004-07-19 12:57:04 PM |
| #2 It's odd that the Wilsonian FDR types are willing to create Israel which they then abandon for the Palestinians. It then falls to the realists Jacksonian conservatives to perform the janitorial function of dealing with the results of this little project of the bleeding-hearts. I think I coudl win the Nobel Prise for Peace by issuing Play Station II equipment to distract/deter the most immature demographic Americans from involvement in world issues. There is a real element of Peter Pan mentality in some of the soft-core left. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-07-19 11:51:02 AM |
| #1 I think it goes deeper than that. Even the founders of the United States recognized that they were the first true "revolutionaries", call it of the "international democratic conspiracy". From the very start, as an example, they printed and distributed copies of the US Constitution to every corner of the planet. Many US Presidents since have taken this idea to heart, despising kings, dictators and tyrants of all types and openly plotting against them. (You will note the harshness of criticism when we make even a temporary agreement with a lesser evil of a dictator to fight a greater evil dictator.) It has been a continual pressure eminating from the US through every channel, to persuade and educate the world about democracy. For this reason, we will do most anything to support most democracies (with a few exceptions, like Prussia), if we can, when they are being oppressed by those whose governments we despise. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2004-07-19 10:50:52 AM |