Israel can look after itself. American Jews should get another hobby, perhaps Judaism, instead of lobbying on behalf of Israel. <\/p>\n
I would like an American foreign policy of resisting invasion of America (including by Mexicans) and abstaining from invasion of other countries.<\/p>\n
Every host nation has the right to demand that its citizens put the country first before any foreign power and if Americans want to obsess about Israel and lobby for Israel or Taiwan or Mexico or China, they should move to the countries they obsess about. If you want to obsess about America, live in America. Don’t wave the flags of foreign powers more prominently than you wave the American flag. <\/p>\n
From Politico<\/a>:<\/p>\n “The region is an economic dwarf. Its combined GDP\u2014even including oil\u2014represents roughly 6 percent of world GDP. Its population is closer to 5 percent of world population, and its military forces are similarly unimpressive. As the iconoclastic scholar Edward Luttwak has pointed out, America\u2019s Middle East analysts frequently fall victim to the \u201cMussolini syndrome\u201d when thinking about the region, attributing \u201creal military strength to backward societies whose populations can sustain excellent insurgencies but not modern military forces.\u201d No Middle Eastern state can project power outside the region\u2014not Iran, which spends about $18 billion per year on defense, and not Saudi Arabia, despite its roughly $60 billion in annual military spending.”<\/p>\n The American Conservative<\/a>: “What silver lining? It\u2019s rooted in the fact that the Mideast may now actually matter much less than we think it does. We do have the option of pretty much ignoring it, if we choose. Its contribution to the world economy is negligible. Its oil will reach the market one way or another. The security and well-being of the American people is not linked to the survival of a Shi\u2019ite regime in Baghdad, a medieval monarch in Riyadh, or, for that matter, a Jewish state in Jerusalem. Recognition of this fact is only beginning to seep into the discourse…”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Israel can look after itself. American Jews should get another hobby, perhaps Judaism, instead of lobbying on behalf of Israel. I would like an American foreign policy of resisting invasion of America (including by Mexicans) and abstaining from invasion of … Continue reading