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  July 31, 2012

  Romney in Jerusalem

  During his trip to Israel, GOP candidate Mitt Romney compared (albeit inaccurately) Israel’s and Palestine’s respective economies, and then proceeded to make remarks that aroused understandable condemnation and accusations of racism.
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19055643
  “[I]f you could learn anything from the economic history of the world it’s this: culture makes all the difference.” In other words, the economic distress in the Palestinian territories is testament to their inferiority. (That Romney can lament the “horrors of history” and then employ this kind of reasoning is an irony surely lost on the governor.)

  On his recent trip to Jerusalem, Romney was simply seeking cash infusions for his campaign. He is beholden to patrons such as American billionaire Sheldon Adelson, a staunch supporter of Israel’s right wing who is also attempting to boost Romney’s Jewish approval ratings. According to Gallup on Friday (July 27) “Obama’s standing stood at 68 percent among Jews, while 25 percent favored Romney.”

  Despite the diplomatic, moral, and factual shortcomings of what he routinely says on the subject of Israel and the Middle East – for which he should certainly be held accountable – Romney’s utterances are in general difficult to take seriously. (See my June 21 article, “Mitt Romney (the Candidate) on the Middle East” for a more developed discussion of this issue.)

  He is simply following orders from his financial masters and saying what Israel’s leaders like to hear. And because the Romney campaign needs to create the image of distinction between itself and Obama, the rhetoric is off the wall. This reality was on display throughout the Republican primaries; the political differences between the GOP and the Democrats are relatively minor, and because both parties have moved to the right, the Republicans choose to move rightward further still so as to differentiate themselves. We are now hearing this in Romney’s alternately inaccurate, bizarre, and/or contradictory statements on the campaign trail, especially concerning foreign policy.

  Even establishment intellectuals like Fareed Zakaria think Romney is off the mark on foreign policy:

  
  http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2120500,00.html
  

  Romney’s pledges of devotion to the Jewish state are in themselves difficult to take seriously. It is not entirely clear how devoted he is even to the United States, much alone one of Washington’s clients. One doesn’t detect from the governor any deeper feelings about this country beyond it serving as a playground on which to generate and accrue vast wealth. His record at Bain Capital, tax havens, and undisclosed personal finances are cause enough for suspicion; that his plan for improving the economy involves tax cuts for the rich (and seemingly little else) is not only breathtaking but strongly indicative of his true priorities.

  What he said in Jerusalem is, again, diplomatically, morally, and factually unsound. Nevertheless, his comments were part of a performance delivered for payment. Maybe he believes what he said, maybe he doesn’t; there is little point in speculating. But if he doesn’t believe it and this kind of rhetoric is his chosen device for getting votes and financial contributions, it doesn’t say much for the candidate or the person.

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  July 30, 2012

  Hedges: The Careerists

  Insightful meditation on the everyday, bureaucratic necessities that centers of power rely upon (link below). One of the best and worst examples is the Nazi Holocaust, which required enormous clerical and administrative effort and consistency: clerks, accountants, lawyers, and secretaries were the engine of the Third Reich’s Final Solution. This point was made repeatedly by the late historian Raul Hilberg, one of the world’s leading Holocaust scholars. He actually helped establish the field in the first place, well before the subject became intellectually fashionable in the 1980s. His short 1996 autobiography, The Politics of Memory, is a read I recommend.

  (Hedges mentions the classic Holocaust documentary Shoah (1985), in which Hilberg appears repeatedly, but Hedges curiously doesn’t mention Hilberg in the article, though must have helped inspire Hedges’s thinking on this subject.)

  In any case, Hedges underlines a crucial reality that merits revisitation and repetition. Not just applicable to extreme historical experiences like the systematic destruction implemented by the Nazis, power always and everywhere relies on the middle and upper-middle class to carry out its agenda. What Hedges reminds us is that our democratic energies are siphoned by the prevailing systemic structures, the dominant among these being the supra-national corporation. These organizations are not just non-democratic, but anti-democratic, and for reasons that make perfect sense to the top echelons of these firms.

  This also applies to colleges and universities, which continue to adopt the corporate model at the expense of students across the country. Serious damage has been done to this system, and has been carried out by administrators who will simply not stop unless they are broadly pressured by students (faculties might possibly join in if a trail is blazed for them, doubtful otherwise). Bureaucracies – corporate or collegiate – do not like light and fear the outside world, namely, the people subject to their policies.

  Chris Hedges does good work. For some reason my only other blog post linking to one of his articles was on January 25, 2010. As I said then, Hedges “has a gravitas and a directness that some might find alarmist. However, his observations and analyses merit serious consideration, in my view.”

  My thoughts here haven’t changed. He has a flair for the dramatic, but his writings serve as a stern warning we would do well to actively consider.

  
  http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_careerists_20120723
  

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  July 28, 2012

  Massad: Arab instability and US strategy

  Good examination of the Arab Spring in the context of US interests in “stability” as opposed to democracy (“instability”). Joseph Massad is among the better informed and more honest observers.
  http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/07/201271511521721772.html
  

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  July 24, 2012

  New book: It’s Not about Religion

  The new book, It’s Not about Religion, is now available for order ($11) through Amazon or Perceval Press’ website.The book turned out beautifully and we hope readers enjoy it and find its 106 pages clear and informative.
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  July 12, 2012

  The Law in These Parts – documentary

  Upcoming documentary – The Law in These Parts- exploring the legal framework undergirding Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories.For 45 years, Israel has adjudicated its own conduct, regardless of the realties of international law, which are quite clear.For an illustration of related behavior, I’ve included a link below from Tuesday’s New York Times. Here’s the article’s first paragraph:

  Flouting international opinion, an Israeli government-appointed commission of jurists said Monday that Israel’s presence in the West Bank was not occupation and recommended that the state grant approval for scores of unauthorized Jewish settlement outposts there.

  
  http://www.thelawfilm.com/eng
  

  
  http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/10/world/middleeast/israeli-panel-says-west-bank-presence-is-not-occupation-and-recommends-approval-of-jewish-settlements.html
  

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  July 9, 2012

  The 1983 Marine barrack bombing and Lebanon

  Looking past the juridical considerations in this article, the court’s decision centers on an incident that has long been foregrounded and reiterated to the point of creating a lie.

  The event did take place. In October 1983, the Marine barracks at the Beirut International Airport were destroyed in a truck-bomb attack killing 241 US troops, mostly Marines. What is routinely omitted in this story is the context.

  In short, the United States provided authorization and support for Israel’s invasion and devastation of Lebanon. The principal goal was to destroy the PLO, which was based there in exile. The thinking went (absurdly) that if the PLO was defeated, so too would Palestinian nationalism.

  At the end of Israel’s “Peace for Galilee” experience, some 20,000 people were dead, the vast majority being civilians; for sake of comparison, the 1999 conflict in Kosovo claimed 10,000 lives. A brief blog post, or mere words for that matter, cannot sufficiently convey the nightmare Lebanon was reduced to in the early 1980s, all with White House consent.

  American Marines were eventually sent (also absurdly) as part of a peacekeeping contingent. However, the US presence shifted to one of belligerence at the behest of President Reagan’s advisers. It is critical to note that the Marine commander stationed in Lebanon strongly objected to this change in role for fear of it endangering his soldiers, and was overruled.

  The US naval bombardments – on top of the murderous havoc already wreaked by Israel – inspired a group of militant locals to respond. Hence the barrack bombing.

  The attack was a senseless loss of life. The Marines did not belong in Lebanon, and were put at risk the minute the White House ordered the naval assault. As for those responsible for the barrack bombing, a conversation is worth having whether it was terrorism or the act of militants attacking foreign troops – foreign troops of the country sponsoring the destruction of theirs.

  Much of the practical and moral culpability – for Lebanon’s losses, Palestinian losses, as well as the death of the American personnel that day – falls squarely on the mandarins of the Reagan administration. Despite Israel’s involvement and those who architected the truck-bombing (and their alleged Syrian and/or Iranian backers), the following questions are raised: Who approved Israel’s invasion in the first place? Who could have stopped it? Who sent in US troops? And who, after being warned of the dangers to those soldiers, called for the military to become directly involved?

  More meaningful adjudication would have been bringing the president and his advisers before a war crimes tribunal, for which they were eligible, and not just for Lebanon.

  
  http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2012/07/2012777055649765.html
  

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  July 6, 2012

  Oxfam report on the West Bank

  In connection with yesterday’s posting, a very informative BBC article on a recent report by Oxfam (second link below) analyzing the West Bank’s economic strangulation.Also in connection with yesterday’s post: while the article is indeed informative, one need only look at the map (included in the piece) to see what’s going on.Israel’s response to Oxfam’s report was predictably ironic, maintaining it “puts a clearly political agenda above any humanitarian concern.” The map disgraces this claim and exposes it for what it is.

  
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18693709
  

  Oxfam report:
  
  http://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/on-the-brink-israeli-settlements-and-their-impact-on-palestinians-in-the-jordan-232131
  

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  July 5, 2012

  Visualizing Occupation

  Interesting series of graphical representations of the Palestinian experience. This one of the occupied West Bank makes quite clear Israel’s agenda since 1967.Books on the subject of Palestine-Israel are required to create, correct, clarify, distill, and present the historical record. They serve an important function. But graphics like these and film documentaries present the realities of the occupation so much better. They also show beyond doubt that the conflict is not complicated and not a symmetrical “two sided” issue where the truth is located in the middle. There’s a reason the word apartheid is increasingly drawn upon.
  http://972mag.com/visualizing-occupation-ethnic-cleansing/43860
  

  
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  July 2, 2012

  American exceptionalism

  Decent article on the longstanding concept of “American exceptionalism,” the doctrine that the United States is chosen, peerless, and transcendent. Correctly, the piece mentions, quoting an historian: “the sanction of God is always the ultimate justification.” This sense of superiority and moral righteousness (inherited from Europe) has both inspired as well as provided an explanation for the general drift of US foreign relations. In a sense it has bookended the various decisions down through the generations: pre-event motivation and post-event rationale.This thinking applied to the barbarous policies carried out during the continental expansion of the nineteenth century and its guiding ideology of Manifest Destiny, just as it did to more modern US projections of global power such as Vietnam. And no matter how dreadful the outcome and consequences of a given policy decision, the Executive Branch has always been able to claim magnanimity and virtuous objectives.What the article leaves out is the effect American exceptionalism has had on the domestic realm. Its role within the nation’s borders is far less dramatic. With this exceptionalism running deep and existing primordially in the culture, a kind of hyper-patriotism is created. As a result, the population becomes protective in the extreme of the country’s good name, and naturally so: when the entities of the country (i.e., the people) and the government become conflated, a strong and inappropriate connection develops between the self and the state machinery. Therefore, in this misconception, to criticize the state is to criticize one’s self, or one’s family, or one’s friends and neighbors. And because of this national experience of “referred pain,” the populace tends to be protective of the state via the self.

  There is also an ancillary effect, which produces the same behavior, namely, not wanting to appear ungrateful. If America is truly chosen, peerless, and transcendent – or at least broadly and strongly considered as such by the culture – one is instinctively discouraged from voicing criticism. This experience is revealed in the tragic and sad exhortation to “love it or leave it.”

  The United States is indeed unique in its freedoms of speech and access to information. It is also unique in the degree to which the government belongs to the population. Shielding the state from substantive criticism only helps sustain the status quo; being critical, vigilant, and dictating our terms, on the other hand, places the state’s distinctive attributes in our service.

  
  http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/30/despite-fights-about-its-merits-idea-of-american-exceptionalism-a-powerful-force-through-history
  

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Contain Syria. And forge better relations with China. P.J. Crowley on the administration’s second-term foreign policy agenda. The 2012 election in many ways reaffirmed the existing political divide over domestic policy and the role of government, but it also produced a surprising consensus on foreign policy. Campaign differences were more about style than substance. What the American people heard and supported was: American leadership matters, but must be employed with greater care, with partners and at a sustainable cost. Over the past half-century, second terms have been characterized by domestic crises at home—Watergate, Iran-Contra, Monica and Katrina—and ambition abroad—China, Russia, Middle East peace and Iraq. If President Obama has, well, a foreign policy mandate, what are the challenges and priorities as he approaches his second term and the White House shifts it focus from reelection to legacy? Ironically, the first foreign policy priority is domestic: achieve a balanced fiscal agreement with Congress by the end of the year without falling off the cliff. Notwithstanding all the campaign rhetoric about leading from the front or behind, nothing will impact international perceptions of American power more than what happens over the next seven weeks. Obviously, actions taken here will influence ongoing efforts across the Atlantic to stabilize the Eurozone—and visa versa. The second is forming a cohesive national security team for the second term. From a foreign policy standpoint, the second Clinton and Bush 43 administrations outperformed the first. With Hillary Clinton, Leon Panetta, Tim Geithner, David Petraeus (unexpectedly) and perhaps others moving on or moving around, President Obama has the opposite problem, rebuilding a national security team that is as effective in the second term as it was in the first. The president’s best opportunity to make history regards Iran. He has consistently said there is sufficient time to resolve questions regarding Iran’s nuclear program through diplomacy rather than military action. He will test that proposition quickly. Expect a new diplomatic initiative before the end of the year. The basics of a grand bargain exist—the Iranian right to low-grade enrichment for civilian purposes in exchange for rigorous inspections to prevent a weapons breakout—but the there is a relatively narrow negotiating window over the next six months between upcoming elections in Israel (January) and Iran (June). Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s strained relationship with a re-elected President Obama is a potential political liability. Having spent much of this year challenging the president over red lines and a zone of impunity, Netanyahu will likely give Obama significant latitude to see if negotiations bear fruit. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has to be concerned about growing unrest over the devastating economic impact of international sanctions and the threat it poses to the perceived legitimacy of the Iranian theocracy. In the past, Iran has sought to cut a deal when backed against the wall. Notwithstanding all the campaign rhetoric about leading from the front or behind, nothing will impact international perceptions of American power more than what happens over the next seven weeks. In contrast, there does not appear to be an immediate solution to Syria. There is no political support for outside military intervention either in this country or in the Middle East. Professor Marc Lynch of The George Washington University told a World Affairs Council national conference on Friday in Washington that the struggle has so divided Syria that Assad’s departure might not by itself end the civil war. If true, the administration’s policy at this point is effectively containment, keeping the violence from affecting from destabilizing the rest of the neighborhood while waiting for a diplomatic opening to present itself. The formation of a new umbrella organization this weekend in Qatar that unites the opposition both inside and outside Syria helps, but is a long way from being a viable alternative to the Assad regime. The so-called Arab Awakening will represent an unpredictable challenge throughout Obama’s second term. Having encouraged the ongoing transitions in Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen, and militarily intervened in Libya, the administration should continue to do what it can to keep them moving in a positive direction while recognizing it cannot dictate outcomes in any of these countries. Building a working relationship with President Mohamed Morsi of Egypt, whom Obama characterized before the election as “neither friend nor foe,” can have region-wide implications. The president’s national security legacy may hinge on the endgame in Afghanistan. Already committed to ending the war in 2014, over the next two years, the administration will likely negotiate a status of forces agreement that allows some U.S. troops to remain in Afghanistan beyond that date. There is already a debate within the White House over the size and focus of that follow-on force, but it is increasingly clear the weak and corrupt Afghan government will need substantial help well into the future to protect its own security. That said, the administration recognized long ago before it located Osama bin Laden that Pakistan is far more important to U.S. security than Afghanistan. In its first two years, it worked hard to build a strategic partnership with Pakistan, but the effort stalled with the fallout from the bin Laden raid and other setbacks. In its second term, Obama needs to shift back from managing the crises of the moment to convincing Pakistan (and the U.S. Congress) to invest in a long-term relationship. It also needs to be more transparent about the ongoing drone campaign that, while necessary, undercuts U.S.-Pakistan relations. There is also the vital and complex relationship with China during a time of turbulence and transition. A hallmark of the first term was reengagement in Asia, but China sees the so-called pivot as a threat to its regional interests. Recently, the administration was sufficiently concerned about growing regional tensions over competing territorial rights that it sent four former high-level officials—Steve Hadley, Rich Armitage, Jim Steinberg and Joe Nye—to Tokyo and Beijing for urgent consultations. Reversing the drift in U.S.-China relations will require developing a better relationship with incoming President Li Jinping than Obama had with outgoing leader Hu Jintao. Second terms are about history, but given this long list of complex challenges, as the saying goes, be careful what you wish for. Like The Daily Beast on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for updates all day long. Philip J. (P.J.) Crowley is a Professor of Practice and Fellow at the Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communication at The George Washington University. He served as the assistant secretary of state for public affairs and spokesman for the United States Department of State from May 2009 until March 2011. He was also a member of the National Security Council staff at the White House during the Clinton Administration. For inquiries, please contact The Daily Beast at editorial@thedailybeast.com. Comments (39) coggocog 21 people listening Sort: Newest | Oldest coggocog just now Barack Obama has other problems. Fiscal Cliff resolution, being one. Foreign policy depends upon a solid setup. Gen david Petraeus extramarital scandal is getting bigger by the day. That means Obama may not touch foreign policy issues for a very long time. He would focus, rather on his first hundred days agenda. Simply stated, not mess up with something public considers as less important. Foreign policy. …and I am Sid Harth@elcidharth.com Edit (2 minutes) hfb1053 13 hours ago I guess many of the disgruntled rwnj are here posting more of their gruntle…. yourmamatoo 13 hours ago @hfb1053 How deep. BaronSiegfried 13 hours ago @yourmamatoo @hfb1053 If schadenfreude contained calories, I’d look like Chris Christie . . . yourmamatoo 12 hours ago @BaronSiegfried Deep. yourmamatoo 13 hours ago Cut the deficit in half. Get unemployment down  to5.5%. Be transparent. All lies from his first  campaign and first 4 yrs. Let’s see him do it these next 4yrs. BaronSiegfried 13 hours ago @yourmamatoo With you and people like you who would rather see him fail than the country succeed? You’re losing. You’re losers. You hate one man more than you love your country. You lost. You will continue to lose, because your hatred blinds you to the fact that America moves forward, not back. It always has. It always will. And your future is oblivion, the grave of hatred, of intolerance, of bigotry yawns before you. America will move forward to a future in which you will never share. Enjoy your defeat, your emptiness, your despair. The future has no need of those like you. You and those like you will be forgotten, as you deserve . . . yourmamatoo 12 hours ago @BaronSiegfried @yourmamatoo Oh please. Using Obama’s own words against him is fair game. He needs to succed, and he should do what he could have done his very first 2 yrs. Now, take your silly talking point nonsense and move on. It is embarrassing on your part, and proves you have nothing. Oh, and I still have the good life. KOGnyc 11 hours ago @yourmamatoo Remember when you and your cohorts were convinced, in a wave of self-satisfied hubris, that Obama was “one and done” in a Romney landslide? LOL Deep! yourmamatoo 10 hours ago @KOGnyc Yes I do. And? And you did not address the post and Obama’s dire record. Will he cut the deficit in half? Will unemployment get to 5.5%% in  4 yrs? When is the Obama WH gonna become transparent? Deep. LOL. bobj72_1 12 hours ago @yourmamatoo;  YOUR LYING Girlie-Man and YOUR Lying Man-Child LOST.  Come to terms with that.  ……. bobj72_1 12 hours ago OH, and I forgot to add ….. “yo – mammy” YOU’RE a Loser too.  And … YOU GOT NOTHING!  ……. yourmamatoo 12 hours ago @bobj72_1 OOOOOOOOOOOO. Name calling. That is the sure sign of what you call others. And  I did notice, you could not defend Obama’s first 4 yrs, hmmm.. ihill09 10 hours ago Poor mama.  Spilled her milk again this morning.  More tears and more whining. yourmamatoo 10 hours ago @ihill09 Only in your dreams. ihill09 10 hours ago WAAAAAAAHHHHHH! Oh, and one more thing:  HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yourmamatoo 10 hours ago @ihill09 HAHAHAHA. You cannot get to me no matter how hard you try. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! HowardSinger 14 hours ago History proves that it is best if Obama does nothing whatsoever. The more he does, the more harm he will cause. teabaggingforjesus_1 14 hours ago @HowardSinger I agree. But if you make yourself a hat out of tin foil, his evil Obama rays cannot reach you and make you a little rappy like what happened to Akin, Moudoch and the rest. RobertN 13 hours ago @HowardSinger  Compare Obama’s foreign policy to the last GOP President’s.  Nuff said. yourmamatoo 13 hours ago @RobertN @HowardSinger You mean like all the chaos that is going on  now? Please. bobj72_1 12 hours ago @yourmamatoo ;  WMD’s.  ……. yourmamatoo 12 hours ago @bobj72_1 Clinton said so. fornewyork 15 hours ago The President owes nothing to the neo cons, so he can implement a more pragmatic approach to the Middle East (an economic open faucet of tax payers’ money) hutlee_2 15 hours ago A good place to start in this second term for Obama is to immediately with draw from the middle east, then  began to withdraw and close all foreign bases, slash the way over bloated military budget, concentrate on  developing a truly effective missile defense system, a stealth submarine missile  system,  some sort of space based system,  and an effective border protection system. Most all of our problems come from the old world , not the Western Hemisphere.  Everything from deadly viruses like ebola to SARS, to harmful imported plants, animals, and insects, even hurricanes are born off the coast of Africa. Most wars, territorial disputes, clash of religions, over population, differences in customs and lifestyles are all in the old world. We. the peoples of the Western Hemisphere are free from the above problems. We basically have the same religion, the same aims and goals in life, and for the most part only four languages to to contend with, English, Spanish, French and Portuguese.  Compare that with the old world! We the people of the New World are all Americans.  It’s time to come closer together, to form a more perfect union by means of all the things we have in common. Through fair trade, commonality in laws, mutual defense, freedom to come and go, freedom from Alaska to Terra del Fuego! Freedom to invest in areas that are in need of development  security for our peoples, the rights to health, property and personal freedom from political oppression from within or from without. It was the aims of the founding fathers of both North America and South America to become the United States of the Americas.  It’s time to work for that end, and withdraw from the old world and all it’s problems. E.Bigguns 12 hours ago @hutlee_2 You know, I can’t find much to disagree with. But we both know it’s a pipe dream.. KarlMarxObama 17 hours ago Yes Comrades ! We must Forge Alliances with our Communist Comrades in China  and all other Communist Countries ! Onward to the One World Communist Revolution ! ProgLibWarrior 17 hours ago @KarlMarxObama Reardong. Paid Troll 17 hours ago @ProgLibWarrior @KarlMarxObama . There’s only one person that reliably dumb. . LOL. KarlMarxObama 17 hours ago @Paid Troll @ProgLibWarrior @KarlMarxObama Yes Comrade ! Demonize and Ignore all Non- Party members ! SouthTexas 16 hours ago @KarlMarxObama @Paid Troll @ProgLibWarrior But you are a party member.  You are a Christo-Fascist. Voltsniper 16 hours ago @Paid Troll Are you sure? suze-Q, frannyjenny and missythemuppet are certainly in contention for ignorance’s displayed. HowardSinger 14 hours ago @Paid Troll ……….and it is Obama! yourmamatoo 13 hours ago @Voltsniper @Paid Troll Still not as strong as your own  ignorance displayed by you shrub. consumedconsumer 15 hours ago @KarlMarxObama Dude, you need to be kinder to one of your creditors . . . China helped finance some of the GOP’s most wonderful blunders and all you do is complain, complain, complain Why don’t you ever mention that your favorite prison is in communist Cuba? Osei Tutu 18 hours ago This is better than reading Michael Medved in The Daily Beast…very reasoned and level-headed analysis. P.J. Crowley was a beauty to behold at the State Department. Wonder why he’s not back right there in the administration helping to put things in one neat row. BobMex 20 hours ago Obama tried to start talks on a nuclear free middle east. Unfortunately Israel refused to talk. yourmamatoo 13 hours ago @BobMex BS! firemetalrat_1 21 hours ago You don’t back up one statement you say. Its all sophistry. 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