(I was entertained by Clinton appearing before AIPAC on C-SPAN. This can't be the end of her career!)

As far as the Middle East is concerned — we'll just have to wait and see what happens. ObamaCo is certainly breaking from a more complacent status quo, if nothing else. In that sense it's interesting (in a disassionate sense, neglecting any hints at farther-left misonduct).

The US has a choice. Israel has no right to throw its weight around there, unless the US is Israel. And in the case of citing Cheneyco. as ruining our position there…the author is right. Diplomacy with the arabs is really the thing we don't have a choice about diplomatically.

When was Israel created and why? Wasn't it to restore them to their holy land, the jews? And yet they attack people on the Shabbat and thumb their nose at Yahweh. So what we're really talking about is supporting some poser-jews [Israeli government]. I've always maintained they are a subsidiary of Texas. When we “have no choice” supporting our “tested friends”. Exactly who are these “friends” and why should we be loyal to them when their whole reason for being in the region has quite apparently be displayed to be a sham?