[Strangelet]

anyhoo....

don't mean to derail the thread into a debate about styles of government....

Maybe not even this time, but it will come to pass where Israel sends its army stocked with U.S. weapons and religious gumption and find that it walked into the jaws of a particularly hungry, vengeful monster, partially of its own creation.

I don't say that with any glee. I hope it doesn't happen. But too often it finds itself on the opposite end of general world opinion about something bloody its doing. And the response is that "israel has a right defend itself"
Repeated often enough, this is the mantra response that works pretty well shaming away anyone who criticizes its tactics.

Recently echoed by Obama, who wondered what it would feel like if his daughters were living in an area where hamas rockets were falling. He would defend himself, like Israel. I just wonder if he will the the first president to also wonder how it would feel if his daughters were also some of the kids pulled dead out of the rubble of some bombed building in gaza, after 4 days of canvasing air raids over populated cities. Because of some rockets that has a less chance of killing any particular person than a car crash.