Silly man (smart people can have stupid ideas). Your justifications for supporting the Biden administration over Trump pale in comparison to a primary justification for supporting Trump, i.e., he is much more likely to cripple the Iranian regime. Hamas can thank Obama and Biden for giving Iran the resources to fund Hamas, which resulted in the Oct. 7 massacre. You foolishly voted for Biden, but now a vote for Biden would effectively make you complicit in that massacre. You believe in abortion rights. Good for you. It's a States' rights issue (always has been) and a state now has the right to let women have an abortion up until the day before birth. How wonderful for you; even better than Roe v. Wade, which, BTW, mangled the Constitution to achieve a predetermined outcome. And the majority of Republicans are not against Gay marriage. Yes, they would prefer civil unions over legally sanctioned marriages, but that ship has sailed and Republicans are not going to blast it out of the water. Bottom line - if you vote for Biden you're voting to support Iran, the destruction of Israel, and the death of not only Jews, but Americans of every faith, because Iran will not stop when Israel is no more - the Great Satan will be next.
Mike, I never mind it when commenters and I disagree on a few things but agree on others. When we can do so without calling one another names, or waxing obscene, we are participating in the dialogue that makes democracy possible.
I was happy that Trump tossed that weird Obama move to placate Iran and aghast when Biden reinstated it. Recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital was also the right thing to do.
I'd like all our immigrants to stop pretending they're refugees, fill out their paperwork, and wait in their own countries for the word to come in and settle down.
Deranged and drug-addicted derelicts belong in secure institutions, not in our public spaces, to be cured and rehabilitated or kept, kindly and indefinitely.
But I do think that a woman's decision to terminate her pregnancy rests with her and her physician, not the states. Fatal anomalies can and usually do develop late in pregnancy. Who wants bureaucrats to tell them what's best for them medically? Or someone else's religion? Or even their own?
Re marriage equality: For it, very definitely.
But for the life of me, I cannot understand how we got from recognizing monogamous loving relationships between two men or two women to having to put up with trans types who load themselves up with hormones and mutilate their bodies (or not) and then claim to be other than they are. And those born male then demand access to sororities, women's swim teams, showers, and bathroom facilities. And to be incarcerated in women's prisons.
Sorry, bud, you say you're a woman, but have you ever had your period start dripping down your leg? Or even legitimately worried that it might?
You'll notice that women who "become men" have the sense not to intrude on male spaces. They know enough not to mess with guys who have decades of testosterone under their belts.
It's an insane thing.
I wish there was a political party I could feel at home in.
The comments here are totally predictable. Iran is waging war against us whether we want it or not. Is it better to confront it now or when Iran gets nukes? If you idiot people think an Iran with nuclear weapons won't be a threat to us then you are more stupid and dangerous than I thought. Keep burrying your heads in the sand. The "conservative" movement is most certainly no longer Reagan's conservatism. It's now the party of isolationism and appeasement and every bit as dangerous as the Democrats. God save us from these radical left wing and right-wing lunatics. How do you put up with the far left and far right antisemites?
Iran has not attacked the United States. They're funding organizations that attack merchants, but Iran is not a threat to our national security. Those merhant vessels, and I've been on a number of them, are capable of defending themselves. They hire ex marine snipers, and special forces.
The world fears the United States more than Iran.
1. The United States spent 5B dollars of tax payer money to overthrow Yanukovych which led to a civil war in Ukraine in 2014; that civil war was the catalyst for Russian involvment. We were the direct cause.
2. The United States spent trillions in Afghanistan and Iraq; another failed attempt at realpolitik, which destroyed the stability of the middleeast. Hundreds of thousands of civilians died; millions had to flee their homeland for fear of violence.
3. The United States spent billions of tax payer money overthrowing Gaddaffi, a man that was no threat to the our national security, or our way of life. Borne out of that involvement, was the destablization of northern Africa, which is now descending into civil war.
In summary, the world doesn't look at the United States as a force for good. Those days are gone, tone and tint. We are viewed, by most countries, as an unstable thug.
The neoliberals, and neoconservatives, who have created this mess, have a adopted interventionism since the end of world war 2. They sought to shape the world in their image, disregarding culture and tradition. Over this period of time, the United States has spent more time at war than at peace. It hasn't made us safer. It hasn't made us more prosperous. And above all, it hasn't won any friends.
The warmongers and fearmongers believe that Iran, a country with the GDP the size of Kentucky, is a threat to the world. That's not a logical position.
We have thousands upon thousands of nuclear weapons. Every country with Nuclear weapons knows that if they use those nuclear weapons they would be dead in minutes. Nobody wants to commit suicide. Iran is not interested in destroying themselves. They have a small country that would not survive a nuclear war.
The 'useful idiots' are the people who believe in this fearmongering nonsense. They actually believe that Iran will magically wake up one morning, and then bomb the United States. It's like the people who believe that Putin woke up one morning, had a cup of coffee, and decided to attack Ukraine as if there wasn't eight years of conflict.
Such propaganda is so far-fetched, that one wonders who could possibly believe it. In an age with independent journalism, with people on the ground taking videos, who still believes such mainstream nonsense.
Thomas Jefferson and James Madison were opposed to engaging conflicts abroad. They wanted a military that would protect their homeland, not a military that went in search of monsters to destroy. Because they knew that a country could not prosper when it seeks to confront villians and enemies 8000 kilometers away. That was the downfall of Rome.
America is not capable of protecting every country; it can only seek to protect itself and maybe its immediate neighbors (i.e, mexico and canada)
And finally, I would only ask that if you do continue to call for war and regime change 8000 kilometers away from home, that you immediately put on a flak jacket, grab a helmet, and go to the front lines.
I want to see photos of you with your M-16, in the trenches. Please show us how tough you are. You and your neocons and neo libs sent myself and my brothers to Iraq, a nonsense war. You also sent my grandfather to Vietnam. So this time I want you to go there. You can sit in the trenches for years and do the regime change yourself.
Iran killed thousands of American servicemen in Iraq. Iran, though its proxies are firing missiles at our navy. It doesn't matter what Iran's GDP is if they get nuclear weapons. How stupid an argument you are making. A bunch of 7th century savages dwelling in caves in Afghanistan successfully pulled off massacring 3000 Americans and taking down the Twin Towers.
Useful idiots is too kind of a description for those hamas supporting protesters. They are evil.
Also, I agree with you that the war should be expanded to Iran. Military confrontation is NOT a popular position amongst today's conservatives. But better a war now BEFORE Iran gets nukes.
Quite the virulent warmonger rant against Iran in this video for a so-called peacenik....lol. I'll tell you this....every bomb that falls on the Houthis is a classic example of failed foreign policies by the Biden administration. Everybody knows that Iran is behind the Houthis, Hamas and Hezbollah. Guess who kept all of these organizations under control? Donald Trump. There were no wars during his administration: Putin, Iran, North Korea, and their proxies, were all under check. After the take-out of Soleimani, Iran was very quiet for a few years. In addition, Trump's crippling sanctions against Iran, destroyed their economy, furthermore reduced their financial capabilities for waging proxy wars. Biden, just like Obama (Assad gassing his own people), promoted American weakness from the very start, especially evident for the whole world to see during Biden's disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal. This catastrophe only encouraged all these bad actors to get more aggressive. History has proven time and time again that appeasement and weakness do not work. You have to pick your poison: under Biden you have multiple wars (that could have all been avoided), raging anti-semitism, BLM destructive riots and killings, virulent DEI programs, inflation, excessive government spending, increased taxes and debt, ridiculous climate change agendas, etc. and I could go on listing all the mistakes and poor choices of this administration.....the worse being they refuse to acknowledge their mistakes, no matter how obvious, and keep doubling down on all of them. Yep, you have blinders on while you let your Trump Derangement Syndrome ravage your opinions.
Thank you for, once again, explaining your point of view in reasonable, immaculate detail. I’d enjoy a debate with you and Senator Paul, or even with one of the “Squad.” As a history lover, I’d also enjoy your insights into other aspects of world and U.S. history, including Medieval and Ancient history.. —Online class?
No one remembers any iranians having the audacity to dance in celebration on american soil on 9/11. Maybe the real enemies of america are to be found somewhere else.
Grab all the visitors to the pedo island and go fight them yourselves clown. You can also take the current puppet in charge as well as the orange monkey and the whole congress. Stop at davos, take buddy klaus and all the other psychopaths and descend in full force upon Iran, Hamas or Irak. Whatever you fancy. Just stop pretending you are anything other than a sick old psychopath.
Your comment about "sick" and whatever else is simply defamatory and shows an airheaded complete absence of ability to provide a reasoned basis for your claim of self-defense which you also cannot define. You have no conceptual or causal understandingof relevanthistorical events. Your opinions are limited to "jews had a right to come here", Jews have a right to self-defense and never do anything else" . Really dumb and not worth this reply. Just go be ignorant all your life but forget persuading anyone. Oh you do not know and like Netanyahu will say "self-defense to anything said.
What gave the Jewish people the right in 1948 and every year since to destroy Palestinian property , take away their civilk rights, turn them into "negroes" and kill unarmed non-combatants and without compensation? Oh, I forgot. "Self Defense. Can you recite the authority in law. What will you saymwhen the ICJ determines that the IDF must ceasefire because of the probability that IDF genocide will be found? If you lack analytical capacity to provide reasoned standpoints, how can you jusify opinions which for you are simply plagiarized from somebody else. We are done. forever.
B, All good points. You say you wish there was a political party that you could feel at home in. Nothing wrong with being an independent. What do you think about Kennedy? With regard to abortion, you say that a woman's decision to terminate her pregnancy rests with her and her physician. That's certainly true if there are complications. But, many people are also concerned about the fetus because they believe it's a human being with the right to life. In that case, there are potentially two opposing interests to consider - the mother's and that of the fetus. So who should decide if the fetus lives or dies? The mother can stand up for her interest, but who is going to speak for the fetus if the mother wants to terminate its life? The Constitution doesn't say when a fetus should be considered a human being with legal rights so I believe the issue should be left to the States as per the 10th Amendment.
If you want to go war, then go yourself. I will give you a helmet, a flak jacket, and an M-16.
But that's kind of the problem isn't it. As soon as you have to go yourself, suddenly you want to talk. You want to find a 'diplomatic solution.'
But if somebody elses child, then you have no problem funding your endless wars with their blood. I'm pretty sure Americans are tired of your crusades in the middleeast. Go yourself. I wish you the best. I hope you can come back and be the great lawyer that you are. But don't force other people to fight in the wars YOU WANT. I'd rather have barbecue.
Oh, right. The USA should fight the wars Israel, the classic neighborhod bully, cannot fight itself, while Alan can be complimented by Netanyahu for services and focus on keeping sealed the documents from the FBI/Palm Beach criminal investigation.
Israel is and has ALWAYS fought its own wars. Iran is the neighborhood bully. Iran sponsors hamas, hezbollah, the houthis who are waging this war against Israel. Israel only acts in self-defense. What kind of monsters accuse Israel of being the aggressor when we all witnessed what happened on October 7.
To answer your last question, anyone with some brains. Not even the nazis were so obvious in putting in scene the masquerade radio station attack that "made" them declare war on Poland.
Whoa. Seems like facts lead us to completely opposite and contradictory conclusions. Maybe you should out of reasonableness check your premises. Do youm define "self-defense 2 so widely that it includes Israeli activitymin oppressing Palestinians in for example the West Bank, by dispossessing them, taking their water rights and olive orchards and letting vigilante settlers burn Palestinian settlements+ Is "self-defense " inclusive of herding Gazans from one area to a "safe" area that is then bombed with 2000 pound bombs? Does self-defense mean that genersations of Palesrtians must live without human rights, with inadequate medical care or employment possibilities, that the entire tribe has to be supported by the UN while neighboring jews have American standards of living+ You write further about "monsters". . Laura, you are probably Jewish and definitely lack a willingness to hear thart HJews ever in historhy have done anything wrong. Yet even in the Bible God himself was often veryy pisse doff at Jews, so it is possible Jewish people can do very wrong things. So try some empathy just as an experiment. You yourself were born Palesrtinian. You cannot change that. You can never be taken for a Jew since you do not know the rituals and Hebrerw will never be mre than a second language. Your parents and thdeir parents havde neverm known freedom. Your schooling is very substandard compared to that of Jewish children. No extracurricular activities, very few material goods like those flasdhed by HJewish kids. No cool sneakers on Muslim kids, and just forget the casgt-off clothes from European charitieds. Your future is limited to the locasl area since trave, is nort allowed. Maybe you can go to Bir Zeit if the Israelis have not yet bombed it. But they have bombed everything daily sand repeatedly in Gaza and generally kill men women and children without taking any prisoners. All this is "self-defense"? And these people are "monsters"..Well there arem those who resisted genderastions of utter oppression. Maybe 2monsters2 fits them+. Or maybe not. Maybe the oppression is so comprehensive, so long lasting and so intimate that all a human can do to remove it it to resort to EXTREME VIOLENCE. At this point, look up the Wikipedia article on Nate Turners Rebellion. Historical analogiesd give perspective on the use of terminology.
Of course, it would never occur to a bigot like you that a non-Jew with moral clarity could support Israel. There are actually millions of non-Jews who support Israel. Not just Christians but Hindus.
If you can still defend hamas' after the barbaric massacres and rapes on October 7, which hamas gleefully recorded, you are one sick and evil creature. hamas vows Jewish genocide in its charter. YES, Israel is clearly acting in self-defense which is obvious to anyone who is not a raging anti-Jewish bigot. The reason those in Gaza lack freedom is because of HAMAS which rules that enclave by the sword and under sharia law. Israel left Gaza in 2005. I can't even begin to have time to unravel everything about your comment that is so wrong. According to your perverse reasoning Israel deserved to have 1400 of its citizens, including babies, barbarically massacred in ways not seen since the holocaust because the "palestinian" kids don't have cool sneakers. You're one sick POS.
We are already on the verge of bankruptcy, and you want a world war 3 with Iran?
How many lives will be lost in that crusade?
You are placing Israel's interests, and the interests of bankers, MNC's and the globalist 'elite' above the interests of the United States.
And it's understandable. You are jewish. If the Irish were under attack, I'd want to save my people too.
But Iran is not a threat to the United States. It's a threat to Israel.
If Israel wants to be a successful nation state, and if it wants autonomy, then it must be capable of defending itself.
Instead of unilaterally declaring war, and forcing americans foot the bill and shed blood, you ought to organize a voluntary militia of like minded people, and go there yourself. It's not our job to save Israel. It's Israel's job to save Israel. It's our job to protect and defend the United States.
Before and during WWII, that is, after we entered the war but even years before, Hitler sent English-speaking scouts to the United States, particularly to our manufacturing towns in New England, to map terrain and locate strategic railways and metal-working plants. He was planning for what he thought was the inevitable invasion of North America.
I guess it was a good thing we got into the war.
Any global confrontation between two ideologies threatens the United States. Right now, we are seeing a confrontation between murderous Islamists and the western world. Despite its location, Israel is a western country. For the most part, it is secular: It has an educated, productive citizenry. Its scientists, medical researchers, and engineers have contributed to the wellbeing of our own society and to the western world in general. For the record, Israel's hospitals also treat Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank.
It would be a bad idea to allow Israel to be subsumed by barbarism. There's already enough of that in the world.
Sad to say, Muslims are in the main pretty regressive. The rich live very well, and the poor just become radicalized and worse. That's okay if they stay in their lane, but they have invaded Europe, and here in New York City they have infiltrated our schools and politics and are interfering in our lives. It is not about Palestine: The blocking of thoroughfares and plazas, railway stations, bridges, tunnels, and airports are designed to destabilize our society.
As we saw in New York City the other day when pro-Hamas demonstrators all but attacked Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital. Do none of these people have loved ones with cancer? Who have died of cancer?
Who are these slogan-chanting barbarians among us?
Only the New York Post, the Jerusalem Post, the Forward, and Fox carried the story. The WSJ ran only an editorial about it.
Silly man (smart people can have stupid ideas). Your justifications for supporting the Biden administration over Trump pale in comparison to a primary justification for supporting Trump, i.e., he is much more likely to cripple the Iranian regime. Hamas can thank Obama and Biden for giving Iran the resources to fund Hamas, which resulted in the Oct. 7 massacre. You foolishly voted for Biden, but now a vote for Biden would effectively make you complicit in that massacre. You believe in abortion rights. Good for you. It's a States' rights issue (always has been) and a state now has the right to let women have an abortion up until the day before birth. How wonderful for you; even better than Roe v. Wade, which, BTW, mangled the Constitution to achieve a predetermined outcome. And the majority of Republicans are not against Gay marriage. Yes, they would prefer civil unions over legally sanctioned marriages, but that ship has sailed and Republicans are not going to blast it out of the water. Bottom line - if you vote for Biden you're voting to support Iran, the destruction of Israel, and the death of not only Jews, but Americans of every faith, because Iran will not stop when Israel is no more - the Great Satan will be next.
Mike, I never mind it when commenters and I disagree on a few things but agree on others. When we can do so without calling one another names, or waxing obscene, we are participating in the dialogue that makes democracy possible.
I was happy that Trump tossed that weird Obama move to placate Iran and aghast when Biden reinstated it. Recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital was also the right thing to do.
I'd like all our immigrants to stop pretending they're refugees, fill out their paperwork, and wait in their own countries for the word to come in and settle down.
Deranged and drug-addicted derelicts belong in secure institutions, not in our public spaces, to be cured and rehabilitated or kept, kindly and indefinitely.
But I do think that a woman's decision to terminate her pregnancy rests with her and her physician, not the states. Fatal anomalies can and usually do develop late in pregnancy. Who wants bureaucrats to tell them what's best for them medically? Or someone else's religion? Or even their own?
Re marriage equality: For it, very definitely.
But for the life of me, I cannot understand how we got from recognizing monogamous loving relationships between two men or two women to having to put up with trans types who load themselves up with hormones and mutilate their bodies (or not) and then claim to be other than they are. And those born male then demand access to sororities, women's swim teams, showers, and bathroom facilities. And to be incarcerated in women's prisons.
Sorry, bud, you say you're a woman, but have you ever had your period start dripping down your leg? Or even legitimately worried that it might?
You'll notice that women who "become men" have the sense not to intrude on male spaces. They know enough not to mess with guys who have decades of testosterone under their belts.
It's an insane thing.
I wish there was a political party I could feel at home in.
The comments here are totally predictable. Iran is waging war against us whether we want it or not. Is it better to confront it now or when Iran gets nukes? If you idiot people think an Iran with nuclear weapons won't be a threat to us then you are more stupid and dangerous than I thought. Keep burrying your heads in the sand. The "conservative" movement is most certainly no longer Reagan's conservatism. It's now the party of isolationism and appeasement and every bit as dangerous as the Democrats. God save us from these radical left wing and right-wing lunatics. How do you put up with the far left and far right antisemites?
He said it himself: the Professor is a stubborn advocate of the Constitutional right of free, uncensored speech. Hooray!
Iran has not attacked the United States. They're funding organizations that attack merchants, but Iran is not a threat to our national security. Those merhant vessels, and I've been on a number of them, are capable of defending themselves. They hire ex marine snipers, and special forces.
The world fears the United States more than Iran.
1. The United States spent 5B dollars of tax payer money to overthrow Yanukovych which led to a civil war in Ukraine in 2014; that civil war was the catalyst for Russian involvment. We were the direct cause.
2. The United States spent trillions in Afghanistan and Iraq; another failed attempt at realpolitik, which destroyed the stability of the middleeast. Hundreds of thousands of civilians died; millions had to flee their homeland for fear of violence.
3. The United States spent billions of tax payer money overthrowing Gaddaffi, a man that was no threat to the our national security, or our way of life. Borne out of that involvement, was the destablization of northern Africa, which is now descending into civil war.
In summary, the world doesn't look at the United States as a force for good. Those days are gone, tone and tint. We are viewed, by most countries, as an unstable thug.
The neoliberals, and neoconservatives, who have created this mess, have a adopted interventionism since the end of world war 2. They sought to shape the world in their image, disregarding culture and tradition. Over this period of time, the United States has spent more time at war than at peace. It hasn't made us safer. It hasn't made us more prosperous. And above all, it hasn't won any friends.
The warmongers and fearmongers believe that Iran, a country with the GDP the size of Kentucky, is a threat to the world. That's not a logical position.
We have thousands upon thousands of nuclear weapons. Every country with Nuclear weapons knows that if they use those nuclear weapons they would be dead in minutes. Nobody wants to commit suicide. Iran is not interested in destroying themselves. They have a small country that would not survive a nuclear war.
The 'useful idiots' are the people who believe in this fearmongering nonsense. They actually believe that Iran will magically wake up one morning, and then bomb the United States. It's like the people who believe that Putin woke up one morning, had a cup of coffee, and decided to attack Ukraine as if there wasn't eight years of conflict.
Such propaganda is so far-fetched, that one wonders who could possibly believe it. In an age with independent journalism, with people on the ground taking videos, who still believes such mainstream nonsense.
Thomas Jefferson and James Madison were opposed to engaging conflicts abroad. They wanted a military that would protect their homeland, not a military that went in search of monsters to destroy. Because they knew that a country could not prosper when it seeks to confront villians and enemies 8000 kilometers away. That was the downfall of Rome.
America is not capable of protecting every country; it can only seek to protect itself and maybe its immediate neighbors (i.e, mexico and canada)
And finally, I would only ask that if you do continue to call for war and regime change 8000 kilometers away from home, that you immediately put on a flak jacket, grab a helmet, and go to the front lines.
I want to see photos of you with your M-16, in the trenches. Please show us how tough you are. You and your neocons and neo libs sent myself and my brothers to Iraq, a nonsense war. You also sent my grandfather to Vietnam. So this time I want you to go there. You can sit in the trenches for years and do the regime change yourself.
Iran killed thousands of American servicemen in Iraq. Iran, though its proxies are firing missiles at our navy. It doesn't matter what Iran's GDP is if they get nuclear weapons. How stupid an argument you are making. A bunch of 7th century savages dwelling in caves in Afghanistan successfully pulled off massacring 3000 Americans and taking down the Twin Towers.
Useful idiots is too kind of a description for those hamas supporting protesters. They are evil.
Also, I agree with you that the war should be expanded to Iran. Military confrontation is NOT a popular position amongst today's conservatives. But better a war now BEFORE Iran gets nukes.
Quite the virulent warmonger rant against Iran in this video for a so-called peacenik....lol. I'll tell you this....every bomb that falls on the Houthis is a classic example of failed foreign policies by the Biden administration. Everybody knows that Iran is behind the Houthis, Hamas and Hezbollah. Guess who kept all of these organizations under control? Donald Trump. There were no wars during his administration: Putin, Iran, North Korea, and their proxies, were all under check. After the take-out of Soleimani, Iran was very quiet for a few years. In addition, Trump's crippling sanctions against Iran, destroyed their economy, furthermore reduced their financial capabilities for waging proxy wars. Biden, just like Obama (Assad gassing his own people), promoted American weakness from the very start, especially evident for the whole world to see during Biden's disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal. This catastrophe only encouraged all these bad actors to get more aggressive. History has proven time and time again that appeasement and weakness do not work. You have to pick your poison: under Biden you have multiple wars (that could have all been avoided), raging anti-semitism, BLM destructive riots and killings, virulent DEI programs, inflation, excessive government spending, increased taxes and debt, ridiculous climate change agendas, etc. and I could go on listing all the mistakes and poor choices of this administration.....the worse being they refuse to acknowledge their mistakes, no matter how obvious, and keep doubling down on all of them. Yep, you have blinders on while you let your Trump Derangement Syndrome ravage your opinions.
Thank you for, once again, explaining your point of view in reasonable, immaculate detail. I’d enjoy a debate with you and Senator Paul, or even with one of the “Squad.” As a history lover, I’d also enjoy your insights into other aspects of world and U.S. history, including Medieval and Ancient history.. —Online class?
No one remembers any iranians having the audacity to dance in celebration on american soil on 9/11. Maybe the real enemies of america are to be found somewhere else.
Grab all the visitors to the pedo island and go fight them yourselves clown. You can also take the current puppet in charge as well as the orange monkey and the whole congress. Stop at davos, take buddy klaus and all the other psychopaths and descend in full force upon Iran, Hamas or Irak. Whatever you fancy. Just stop pretending you are anything other than a sick old psychopath.
Your comment about "sick" and whatever else is simply defamatory and shows an airheaded complete absence of ability to provide a reasoned basis for your claim of self-defense which you also cannot define. You have no conceptual or causal understandingof relevanthistorical events. Your opinions are limited to "jews had a right to come here", Jews have a right to self-defense and never do anything else" . Really dumb and not worth this reply. Just go be ignorant all your life but forget persuading anyone. Oh you do not know and like Netanyahu will say "self-defense to anything said.
What gave the Jewish people the right in 1948 and every year since to destroy Palestinian property , take away their civilk rights, turn them into "negroes" and kill unarmed non-combatants and without compensation? Oh, I forgot. "Self Defense. Can you recite the authority in law. What will you saymwhen the ICJ determines that the IDF must ceasefire because of the probability that IDF genocide will be found? If you lack analytical capacity to provide reasoned standpoints, how can you jusify opinions which for you are simply plagiarized from somebody else. We are done. forever.
B, All good points. You say you wish there was a political party that you could feel at home in. Nothing wrong with being an independent. What do you think about Kennedy? With regard to abortion, you say that a woman's decision to terminate her pregnancy rests with her and her physician. That's certainly true if there are complications. But, many people are also concerned about the fetus because they believe it's a human being with the right to life. In that case, there are potentially two opposing interests to consider - the mother's and that of the fetus. So who should decide if the fetus lives or dies? The mother can stand up for her interest, but who is going to speak for the fetus if the mother wants to terminate its life? The Constitution doesn't say when a fetus should be considered a human being with legal rights so I believe the issue should be left to the States as per the 10th Amendment.
Just as I knew, the isolationists/appeasers are clutching their pearls over this podcast.
Another babyboomer that wants to 'widen the war'
How sweet and wonderful.
Your generation is so peaceful.
America First. Not America Last.
If you want to go war, then go yourself. I will give you a helmet, a flak jacket, and an M-16.
But that's kind of the problem isn't it. As soon as you have to go yourself, suddenly you want to talk. You want to find a 'diplomatic solution.'
But if somebody elses child, then you have no problem funding your endless wars with their blood. I'm pretty sure Americans are tired of your crusades in the middleeast. Go yourself. I wish you the best. I hope you can come back and be the great lawyer that you are. But don't force other people to fight in the wars YOU WANT. I'd rather have barbecue.
Oh, right. The USA should fight the wars Israel, the classic neighborhod bully, cannot fight itself, while Alan can be complimented by Netanyahu for services and focus on keeping sealed the documents from the FBI/Palm Beach criminal investigation.
Israel is and has ALWAYS fought its own wars. Iran is the neighborhood bully. Iran sponsors hamas, hezbollah, the houthis who are waging this war against Israel. Israel only acts in self-defense. What kind of monsters accuse Israel of being the aggressor when we all witnessed what happened on October 7.
To answer your last question, anyone with some brains. Not even the nazis were so obvious in putting in scene the masquerade radio station attack that "made" them declare war on Poland.
Whoa. Seems like facts lead us to completely opposite and contradictory conclusions. Maybe you should out of reasonableness check your premises. Do youm define "self-defense 2 so widely that it includes Israeli activitymin oppressing Palestinians in for example the West Bank, by dispossessing them, taking their water rights and olive orchards and letting vigilante settlers burn Palestinian settlements+ Is "self-defense " inclusive of herding Gazans from one area to a "safe" area that is then bombed with 2000 pound bombs? Does self-defense mean that genersations of Palesrtians must live without human rights, with inadequate medical care or employment possibilities, that the entire tribe has to be supported by the UN while neighboring jews have American standards of living+ You write further about "monsters". . Laura, you are probably Jewish and definitely lack a willingness to hear thart HJews ever in historhy have done anything wrong. Yet even in the Bible God himself was often veryy pisse doff at Jews, so it is possible Jewish people can do very wrong things. So try some empathy just as an experiment. You yourself were born Palesrtinian. You cannot change that. You can never be taken for a Jew since you do not know the rituals and Hebrerw will never be mre than a second language. Your parents and thdeir parents havde neverm known freedom. Your schooling is very substandard compared to that of Jewish children. No extracurricular activities, very few material goods like those flasdhed by HJewish kids. No cool sneakers on Muslim kids, and just forget the casgt-off clothes from European charitieds. Your future is limited to the locasl area since trave, is nort allowed. Maybe you can go to Bir Zeit if the Israelis have not yet bombed it. But they have bombed everything daily sand repeatedly in Gaza and generally kill men women and children without taking any prisoners. All this is "self-defense"? And these people are "monsters"..Well there arem those who resisted genderastions of utter oppression. Maybe 2monsters2 fits them+. Or maybe not. Maybe the oppression is so comprehensive, so long lasting and so intimate that all a human can do to remove it it to resort to EXTREME VIOLENCE. At this point, look up the Wikipedia article on Nate Turners Rebellion. Historical analogiesd give perspective on the use of terminology.
Of course, it would never occur to a bigot like you that a non-Jew with moral clarity could support Israel. There are actually millions of non-Jews who support Israel. Not just Christians but Hindus.
If you can still defend hamas' after the barbaric massacres and rapes on October 7, which hamas gleefully recorded, you are one sick and evil creature. hamas vows Jewish genocide in its charter. YES, Israel is clearly acting in self-defense which is obvious to anyone who is not a raging anti-Jewish bigot. The reason those in Gaza lack freedom is because of HAMAS which rules that enclave by the sword and under sharia law. Israel left Gaza in 2005. I can't even begin to have time to unravel everything about your comment that is so wrong. According to your perverse reasoning Israel deserved to have 1400 of its citizens, including babies, barbarically massacred in ways not seen since the holocaust because the "palestinian" kids don't have cool sneakers. You're one sick POS.
Obvious false flag. A lot more obvious than the gulf of tonkin one. Now sod off.
We are already on the verge of bankruptcy, and you want a world war 3 with Iran?
How many lives will be lost in that crusade?
You are placing Israel's interests, and the interests of bankers, MNC's and the globalist 'elite' above the interests of the United States.
And it's understandable. You are jewish. If the Irish were under attack, I'd want to save my people too.
But Iran is not a threat to the United States. It's a threat to Israel.
If Israel wants to be a successful nation state, and if it wants autonomy, then it must be capable of defending itself.
Instead of unilaterally declaring war, and forcing americans foot the bill and shed blood, you ought to organize a voluntary militia of like minded people, and go there yourself. It's not our job to save Israel. It's Israel's job to save Israel. It's our job to protect and defend the United States.
Before and during WWII, that is, after we entered the war but even years before, Hitler sent English-speaking scouts to the United States, particularly to our manufacturing towns in New England, to map terrain and locate strategic railways and metal-working plants. He was planning for what he thought was the inevitable invasion of North America.
I guess it was a good thing we got into the war.
Any global confrontation between two ideologies threatens the United States. Right now, we are seeing a confrontation between murderous Islamists and the western world. Despite its location, Israel is a western country. For the most part, it is secular: It has an educated, productive citizenry. Its scientists, medical researchers, and engineers have contributed to the wellbeing of our own society and to the western world in general. For the record, Israel's hospitals also treat Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank.
It would be a bad idea to allow Israel to be subsumed by barbarism. There's already enough of that in the world.
Sad to say, Muslims are in the main pretty regressive. The rich live very well, and the poor just become radicalized and worse. That's okay if they stay in their lane, but they have invaded Europe, and here in New York City they have infiltrated our schools and politics and are interfering in our lives. It is not about Palestine: The blocking of thoroughfares and plazas, railway stations, bridges, tunnels, and airports are designed to destabilize our society.
As we saw in New York City the other day when pro-Hamas demonstrators all but attacked Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital. Do none of these people have loved ones with cancer? Who have died of cancer?
Who are these slogan-chanting barbarians among us?
Only the New York Post, the Jerusalem Post, the Forward, and Fox carried the story. The WSJ ran only an editorial about it.
Why don't our major news media want us to know?
Amen, at least one sensible commenter here.
Thank you, Laura. I try.
Iran has already killed thousands of Americans over the decades, you fool. So yes, Iran is a threat to America.
If Iran gets nukes, it won't only be Israel to be endangered you moron. Even the Arab states want Iran stopped.