(04-01-2009 10:10 PM)I45owl Wrote:  

(04-01-2009 08:44 PM)smn1256 Wrote:  If I remember correcty, during the campaign Obama reached out more to Iran than he did to Israel and he seemed to reach out to them only after people started bitching about it. Maybe Obama should impose a tax on Iranian nukes like he did with our smokes.

Color me a pessimist. An Israeli attack on Iran will probably result in US Policy shifting heavily in favor of Hamas as well as near complete ostracism of Israel by Europe. This is probably heads you lose, tails RobertN wins.
I don't really like the military option here.

I don't think there are many people in Europe or the Arab world who want to see Iran with nukes.

(04-02-2009 12:10 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(04-01-2009 10:10 PM)I45owl Wrote:  

(04-01-2009 08:44 PM)smn1256 Wrote:  If I remember correcty, during the campaign Obama reached out more to Iran than he did to Israel and he seemed to reach out to them only after people started bitching about it. Maybe Obama should impose a tax on Iranian nukes like he did with our smokes.

Color me a pessimist. An Israeli attack on Iran will probably result in US Policy shifting heavily in favor of Hamas as well as near complete ostracism of Israel by Europe. This is probably heads you lose, tails RobertN wins.
I don't really like the military option here.

I don't think there are many people in Europe or the Arab world who want to see Iran with nukes.

You're absolutely right, but logical consistency is not a strong point of European behavior.

(04-01-2009 10:59 PM)SumOfAllFears Wrote:  Isn't it ironic that American Jews voted 80% to elect ObamaMessiah. I wonder if they are reading the memo now. Netanyahu is a much more experienced leader than ObamaTheIdiot. Obama has never run anything but a Campaign, with other peoples money. His only military experience was when he was taught how to salute. We are living in very dangerous times.

In spite of paranoid delusions by those like RobertN about Jews being neocons, they have consistently and overwhelmingly been both left-leaning and strong advocates of civil rights. And, they have consistently been thrown under the bus by other constituencies that they've supported from communists in Russia to African American civil rights leaders here in the US. The treatment of former Dallas Mayor Laura Miller by some of the so-called civil rights leaders here in Dallas was venomous and absolutely appalling.

(04-02-2009 09:08 AM)I45owl Wrote:  

(04-01-2009 10:59 PM)SumOfAllFears Wrote:  Isn't it ironic that American Jews voted 80% to elect ObamaMessiah. I wonder if they are reading the memo now. Netanyahu is a much more experienced leader than ObamaTheIdiot. Obama has never run anything but a Campaign, with other peoples money. His only military experience was when he was taught how to salute. We are living in very dangerous times.

In spite of paranoid delusions by those like RobertN about Jews being neocons, they have consistently and overwhelmingly been both left-leaning and strong advocates of civil rights. And, they have consistently been thrown under the bus by other constituencies that they've supported from communists in Russia to African American civil rights leaders here in the US. The treatment of former Dallas Mayor Laura Miller by some of the so-called civil rights leaders here in Dallas was venomous and absolutely appalling.

Absolutely right about Jews being overwhelming Democratic. Have always been. Defiantly for a womens right to choose. They are for Capitalism and Fiscal responsibility.

Roberta is a misfit and ineffectual.