Bush Administration, Not Kerry, Responsible For Being ‘Feckless’
I know a family who just recently returned from the war zone that is Israel. Since their experience with the constant shelling and the frequent evacuations to Israeli shelters, the children of the family are as afraid of loud noises as are soldiers with PTSD who are traumatized even by sounds such as thunder. It’s a living hell, with no solution in sight. According to my source, Israelis are told the government truly makes sincere efforts to warn Palestinians they are going to attack rocket-launching sites. My Israeli friends say this is the reality: Hamas prevents these innocent people, so many of them children, from heeding the evacuation warnings and they are trapped either way. Hamas uses the ensuing carnage as more publicity to fuel their campaign to eliminate Israel completely.
I think the Post World War Two situation for Jews definitely warranted a solution. The problem with the relocation to Palestine was that it was based on an ancient holy book. It’s an arbitrary religious doctrine that determines sovereignty and religion, in my opinion, should not play a role in claim to a land. We know many Palestinians were massacred and displaced by the 1948 formation of the Zionist State, so their anger is certainly justified. But the creation of the group Hamas has a history very similar to that created by the US-Cold War alliance with Muslim countries who were at odds with the Soviet Union. The enemies of your enemies can, and most likely will, become your enemies as well (See Afghanistan: 1980-present). Israel focused on the elimination of Hamas, according to a 2009 WSJ article:
Unable to uproot a now entrenched Islamist network that had suddenly replaced the PLO as its main foe, Israel tried to decapitate it. It started targeting Hamas leaders. This, too, made no dent in Hamas’s support, and sometimes even helped the group. In 1997, for example, Israel’s Mossad spy agency tried to poison Hamas’s exiled political leader Mr. Mashaal, who was then living in Jordan.
Today, the Republicans are, as usual, criticizing President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry for being “feckless.” But let’s recall Condoleezza Rice and her efforts to deal with the 2006 victory by Hamas. She had to explain why her boss, GWB, pushed for elections at such a volatile time. President Bush said a party that advocated the destruction of Israel would never be partner for peace, but also hailed the result (which brought a terrorist organization to prominence in Palestine) as an example of democracy in action. So Condi, never criticized for working with the EU, UN and Russia, attempted to diplomatically solve a problem that ultimately failed. We are seeing the consequences of that failure worse than ever in Gaza and Israel today. The future is not looking good, but it sure as hell isn’t the fault of our pretty awesome Secretary of State Kerry. If anyone failed at efforts to curtail Hamas, I’d say it was Bush and Condi. Just add that to their endless list of foreign policy disasters.
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Pistol-Packing July 29th, 2014 at 14:06
I think I am going to puke after reading that completely biased piece of crap dissertation. May I remind you of the Camp David Summit with Clinton, Arafat, and Ehud Barak, as well as the 1978 Camp David Accords under Carter in an attempt to resolve the conflict.
Need we talk about the first and second Infitada’s and how that helped with the peace process? Excuse me while I go lose my lunch…..
arc99 July 29th, 2014 at 14:56
join the club Pistol. I have been losing my lunch for nearly five years now as innumerable conservative politicians and pundits would have us believe that the foreign policy issues confronting America today would somehow never have happened if only we had a President Romney.
Israel, Iraq, Ukraine are all the fault of the President. Always absent from those criticisms, is any mention of what specifically should be done and how many billions of our tax dollars should be used to do it.
When the President’s critics spend five years just throwing sh*t at the wall to see what will stick, I admit I cannot get all worked up when supporters of the President adopt the same strategy in rebuttal.
Pistol-Packing July 29th, 2014 at 15:04
I hear you loud and clear.
Pistol-Packing July 29th, 2014 at 14:06
I think I am going to puke after reading that completely biased piece of crap dissertation. May I remind you of the Camp David Summit with Clinton, Arafat, and Ehud Barak, as well as the 1978 Camp David Accords under Carter in an attempt to resolve the conflict.
Need we talk about the first and second Infitada’s and how that helped with the peace process? Excuse me while I go lose my lunch…..
arc99 July 29th, 2014 at 14:56
join the club Pistol. I have been losing my lunch for nearly five years now as innumerable conservative politicians and pundits would have us believe that the foreign policy issues confronting America today would somehow never have happened if only we had a President Romney.
Israel, Iraq, Ukraine are all the fault of the President. Always absent from those criticisms, is any mention of what specifically should be done and how many billions of our tax dollars should be used to do it.
When the President’s critics spend five years just throwing sh*t at the wall to see what will stick, I admit I cannot get all worked up when supporters of the President adopt the same strategy in rebuttal.
Pistol-Packing July 29th, 2014 at 15:04
I hear you loud and clear.
R.J. Carter July 29th, 2014 at 14:39
Hamas is hardly the latest terror group to come to power through democracy. Who was running the show then, and heralding (and financing) the Arab Spring as a welcomed event?
R.J. Carter July 29th, 2014 at 14:39
Hamas is hardly the latest terror group to come to power through democracy. Who was running the show then, and heralding (and financing) the Arab Spring as a welcomed event?
shocktreatment July 29th, 2014 at 15:09
“the Republicans are, as usual, criticizing President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry for being “feckless.”…”
‘Feckless’, eh? Without ‘feck’. Unencumbered by ‘feck’, ‘feck’-free, sans-‘feck’, ‘feck’-deprived.
I wonder, where they born like that, or were they ‘unfecked’ somehow, along the way?
About as useful an activity as wondering if the republicans are going to get anything meaningful accomplished during this congressional term, the criminal feckers…