Monday, April 29, 2013

THE BOOM-BOOM TWINS: TO THE RIGHT OF THE ISRAELIS ON SYRIA

I'm sure you noticed this yesterday:
Across a variety of Sunday shows [yesterday] morning, Republican lawmakers urged President Barack Obama to take further action in Syria, three days after the U.S. revealed intelligence that suggests President Bashar al-Assad's regime has used chemical weapons.

The lawmakers urged an international response by the end of the year. Or, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) warned, the "whole region's going to fall into chaos." ...

"The president drew a red line on chemical weapons, thereby giving a green light to Bashar al-Assad to do anything short of that," [Senator John] McCain said on NBC's "Meet the Press."...
Today The New York Times notes that this puts McCain, Graham, and their ideological soul mates to the right of the Israeli government:
A senior Israeli official said Sunday that Israel was not urging the United States to take military action in Syria, despite intelligence assessments asserting that the government of President Bashar al-Assad recently used chemical weapons in the civil war gripping its country....

"We never asked, nor did we encourage, the United States to take military action in Syria," [Yuval] Steinitz [the minister of strategic and intelligence affairs and international relations] said at a conference in New York sponsored by The Jerusalem Post....
Among the things Lindsey Graham is fretting about is this:
Graham seemed to warn that if the U.S. doesn't act, terrorist attacks involving chemical weapons could occur in the U.S.
That's lovely -- Graham is more worried that events in Syria could lead to a chemical attack here, an ocean away, than the Israelis apparently are about such an attack from a country on their own border.

It almost seems inappropriate to describe the incessant ginning up of fear by Graham and McCain as a tactic -- it's more like a nervous tic.

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  2. Pretty rough, when you remember that Hitler was left of the Israelis.

    No fear.

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  3. Ten teddies, :-)
    I'm not sure of what you mean.
    I think you are using a different definition of "right" than Any I know of.
    I'd put the current Israeli government down as on the same path, just not as developed yet.
    they consider them selves as the chosen people. Hitler was into racial purity and superiority to albeit a bit more extreme.

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  4. Fear is all they have left to sell.

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  5. Remember when conservatives at least pretended to be tough?

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