Israel has pundits, like every uncivilized civilized country on Earth. And they no longer care for this Obama fellow. "A Bullet in the Back from Uncle Sam," writes one, Aviad Pohoryles, who sounds alternatively very Jewish and like he's a friend of Harry Potter. Yes, it turns out the United States is supposed to support Mubarak at all costs, even though he is a corrupt dictator who is currently being toppled. Why? Can you guess? "I don't say everything that he did was right, but he did one thing which all of us are thankful to him for: he kept the peace in the Middle East," says Benjamin Netanyahu. Oh: Israel. Mubarak was nice to Israel.Does anyone in world government understand democracies are much more peaceful in general because they have to take time to take care of their own citizens and answer to them? And that it's probably better to get on a new democracy's good side by supporting them in public rather than the dictator who lorded over them for decades? No. Everyone likes to make it hard on themselves. There's much more "peace-building" work to get when there's no peace. [
Sort of OT - but after reading this, and the very astute comment for Sorosbot about gold plates, I have to ask...
Is anyone as sick of religion as I am?
"God gave this land to us!" "No...to us!" "No...to us!"
Fuck that noise. I'm not as worried about global warming as I used to be because the "Big Three" Faiths are going to drag us into a conflagration long before the Atlantic ocean laps at my door.
Agreed. We are, after all, just really clever apes. We'd still chase after our neighbor's bananas. It's religion that gives war that extra tang of ferocity.
Brothers! Sisters! Let us come together. We shall overcome! One half achovies, one half whatever you like...and a free pitcher of soda.
A-fuckin-men.
OT - But I have to say that you have the best avatar here.
Sort of OT - but after reading this, and the very astute comment for Sorosbot about gold plates, I have to ask...
Is anyone as sick of religion as I am?
"God gave this land to us!" "No...to us!" "No...to us!"
Fuck that noise. I'm not as worried about global warming as I used to be because the "Big Three" Faiths are going to drag us into a conflagration long before the Atlantic ocean laps at my door.
Agreed. We are, after all, just really clever apes. We'd still chase after our neighbor's bananas. It's religion that gives war that extra tang of ferocity.
I forget where I read it, but someone said we should treat different beliefs the way we treat a person's preference of pizza toppings.