A smart friend says that his main hope is that Obama is assembling a center-right foreign policy team in order to give himself cover to conduct a center-left foreign policy. Well let's hope. But why does he need cover? Didn't he get elected by the center-left? Can't he govern from the center-left? Oh, innocent reader: this is the chief fascination of this blog. And the answer is Summers, Emanuel and Clinton, and the power bloc they represent in American society.
Yesterday I said I was going to blog every day one simple statement from Brent Scowcroft, that the election of Obama had removed the ancient stain of injustice from our history, now it is time to lift the injustice from the Palestinians.
...Mr Obama has for several months been taking advice from Brent Scowcroft, the national security adviser to the first President Bush.
His return to prominence in Washington represents a resurgence of the old school conservative realists, who were largely eclipsed during this Bush administration by the neoconservatives.
They place US national interests above the quest to defend human rights or to spread democracy. Progressives and liberals see Mr Scowcroft's hand in the move to retain Mr Gates, an old friend, at the Pentagon and also in the expected elevation of Gen. Jones.
Looks like the Clinton Mafia will be running foreign policy anyway.
How just like yesterday were Scowcroft's words in his August 2002 piece in the WSJ trying to silence the drumbeat for war in Iraq: link to opinionjournal.com
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It reminds me of Thucydides account of the Athenian invasion of Sicily, where, upon arrival in overwhelming force, Lamachus suggested they immediately attack Syracuse, the stronghold they had come to overthrow, while the more persuasive Alcibiades proposed instead to muck about among the lesser cities and towns, seeking allies, doing a little plunder, then later come back and attack Syracuse. The result of losing sight of the mission was catastrophic, then as now. Let us hope that six or seven years late, Scowcroft's good advice will be heeded. The Athenian expedition did not recover from its blunder, its 130+ ships and 7000 men all lost.
"A smart friend says that his main hope is that Obama is assembling a center-right foreign policy team in order to give himself cover to conduct a center-left foreign policy. "
Sorry, but this is as ridiculous as the claim that Fuad Ajami is uttering his anti-Arab and anti-Muslim nonsense in order to make it to the top, and then use that position to do service to Arabs/Muslims. That's just the most ridiculous type of argument I've ever heard.
And now, the zionists are talking quite openly about "harnessing" the American administration. If any other country's leaders talked in this manner, there would be outrage in America. I guess Americans are the willing slaves of the zionists. If they've willingly thrown their lot in with their zionist masters, then I dare say even 9/11 can be justified.
I know just what you mean, blogger from Lebanon. But hope springs eternal in the human breast, unfortunately.
It's not real complicated: On Barack Obama's list of priorities, "the political career of Barack Obama" comes in first by a long margin. The Palestinians are 187th. On Barack Obama's list of "Who Could Screw Up my Political Career If I Don't Watch Out," the neos (con and lib) are way up near the top. The Pals aren't even on the list.
So, Obama is tossing the Pals to the Neos.
blogger from lebanon,
can you post anything about what you said,
"he zionists are talking quite openly about "harnessing" the American administration. "
i would appreciate being able to pass it around.
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Ex-IDF Chief Ya'alon: We must consider killing Ahmadinejad
By Haaretz Service
Former Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Moshe "Boogie" Ya'alon told an Australian newspaper this week that the West must consider all options necessary to stop Tehran's nuclear program, including assassinating Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad….
ENTIRE ARTICLE –
link to haaretz.com
The people being chosen for the State Department are problematic, but Obama's economic choices are far scarier.
See Too close to Economic Levers.
See Zionist Control Sovereign Wealth Funds?
Many of the Jews in the Obama administration like Summers and Emanuel have long histories of showing contempt for goyishe kep (stupid gentiles), but do they really expect Arab leaders to turn over $300 billion to a bunch of racist anti-Arab Jewish Zionist clowns. (Actually according to my information the Bush administration needs and is seeking much more money from Arab countries.)
Isn't there something seriously wrong for the USA to seek financial aid from Arabs when the USA is maintaining a murderous racist Jewish Zionist genocidal State that treats the native Arab population like vermin?
Cash aid is as fungible as assistance can be? Arab states would be supported the US national debt, which is at least 50% due to the alliance with the Zionist state, and Arabs would be footing the bill for the aid that Obama has promised to Israel so that the IDF can kill Arabs more efficiently.
The USA is putting all sorts of conditions on companies it helps. Shouldn't Arab states demand the USA support repatriation of the native Palestinian population and return of stolen properties to their rightful owners for a starting condition?
Peters- here you go, this is what I was referring to :
"The new American administration must be harnessed to support this process, the paper adds. "
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1039929.html
"Isn't there something seriously wrong for the USA to seek financial aid from Arabs when the USA is maintaining a murderous racist Jewish Zionist genocidal State that treats the native Arab population like vermin?"
Well, there should be something wrong with it, but there isn't, because those Arab leaders/regimes are more zionist than zionists.
Do I expect Arab leaders to comply with the request? Of course. They are puppets, that's part of the job…
Israel & AIPAC blow the Shoah to distract from what this super state is doing to the Pals, and the Arab elite blow the Nakba to distract the Arab Street from their own miseries. How much Progress has there been in domestic
Saudia Arabia or Jordan since those states were created?
"the Arab elite blow the Nakba to distract the Arab Street from their own miseries."
I only wish that were the case, that would've meant that at least something good was coming out of it. But alas, you are horribly off the mark. Arab elites do not talk about the Nakba, let alone "blow" it to distract the Arab street. In fact, the only "distraction" they've ever used is the domestic Salafi terrorists they prepare, fund, and arm. The terrorists strike every now and then to remind the masses that if the "moderate" regimes are toppled, this is what awaits them.
the domestic Salafi terrorists they prepare, fund, and arm"
a very good person on this is the slightly mysterious but evidently genuine Frankin Lamb. every now and then he comes up with a splendid exposé of the activities of what he calls 'the Welch club' in this area.
OK, in my ignorance, I ASK, What do the Arab regimes really think and do about the Palestinian plight?