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They hate us for our freedom to walk into their house and shoot their children.
Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.
Machiavelli
Why must it?
Is it good for the Jews?
For American gentiles?
For Iran's Jews?
Is it good for Iranians?
Is it good for the Jews?
What is a useful idiot?
What is "happening with Iran and Israel"?
"The critical contribution that diaspora Jews can make in engagement with Israel is to remind those of us here of the sharp experience of being the outsider, the stranger, so that we Israelis don’t forget where we came from."
Three more questions.
1) By "the outsider, the stranger" does he mean the Palestinians?
2) Is that "the critical contribution"?
3) Does "where we came from" outweigh "what we're doing"? and "where we're going"? and "what we've become"?
"Israel presents the opportunity for Jews to have power over their lives as a collective"
What about the sentence that preceded that one?
"the only way for people to act morally is to have power over their lives"
Is that true?
Also, what if "the only way to have power over" your life is to have power over somebody else's life?
Safe to say that's a terrible position to be in if it's true?
Wouldn't it be a lot cheaper to just buy it?
More questions.
Why are our soldiers in Afghanistan?
What are they accomplishing?
What are they going to be like when they come home?
The dead Afghans - what are their mothers going through right now? Ditto their fathers, their brothers and sisters, their wives (or sweethearts), their children, their friends?
What is all of this about?
Where are the Afghans' weapons?
And the wheelbarrow?
What if...?
No, that wasn't what I meant.
I just wonder about stuff. Always have lots of questions. That's ok, isn't it?
Would a Palestinian who converts to Judaism have the right to return?
"I thought it was obvious why a U.S. military intervention was impossible. Others have asked me to spell out the reasons. Very well...
"The second reason is that Israel is indeed so powerful that the casualties on all sides would be horrendous–even if we leave aside the possibility that an Israel on the verge of defeat would use nuclear weapons–which would be more likely to occur than not."
Question. Does the second reason apply to other countries as well? Would they like them for the same reason?
Saddam and Gaddafy were in their late 60s. Anything to be said for being a little bit patient?
What is "baggage"? Who decides what's baggage and what isn't?
Why doesn't lying through your teeth count as "baggage"?
Why doesn't being a sock puppet for special interests count as "baggage"?
Why doesn't repeatedly hoodwinking the people you're supposed to be representing count as "baggage"?
Just wondering.
The Vietnam war.
A million or so dead Vietnamese. 56,000 dead GIs.
We went there to "go after" them.
Then they "got after" us.
Then we went home.
What was that all about? Dominoes?
Does anyone know?
Does Jerome Slater? He's spent 40 years studying this stuff. He must have some idea.
Correction: Jerome Slater.
"Everyone thinks WWII was a just war."
Is that true? Does everyone think that? Maybe so. But is there another way – are there other ways – of "assessing" that "event"? 46 million people killed is a lot of dead human beings. Was there a better way of getting from A to B?
What exactly does it mean to "go after" the Taliban? McDonalds used to "tally" the hamburgers it had sold. 13 million sold. 15 million sold. That sort of thing. Does "going after" the Taliban mean killing a certain number of them? If so, how many? Or wounding them? Or disarming them? Or putting them on the payroll? Or what?
What is the cost? What is the benefit? How do you measure these things? How do you know?
Does Jeremy Slater know the answer to any of these questions?* If so, could he please shed some light on them? And if he can't, well, maybe he should think it through a bit more. We deserve better than sophomoric from distinguished university professors, "advisers", think tank types, etc. etc.
*Does anyone?
"nation-building"
"finish the job"
What, specifically, do those two terms actually mean? They get bandied about all the time. I don't understand what they mean. Would appreciate it if someone would explain how, specifically, the United States, or any other country for that matter, "nation-builds". How does it happen? How do you know it's happened? Or is happening? When do you know it's happened?
Ditto for "finish the job"? What do you have to do to "finish the job"? When is it "finished"? Indeed, what is "the job"? How do you know when it's "finished"? Is it ever "finished"?
Just wondering.