The Obama administration is fine with risking Israeli lives: Hey, great! Our vice-president wants Israel to “take risks for peace.” Because it’s not like they, say, gave the PA control over most of the West Bank and Gaza and were answered with terror; withdrew from Lebanon and were answered with war; withdrew from Gaza and were answered with rockets; and eased checkpoints and were answered with terror attacks. So yes, absolutely, Joe, Israel should takes risks for peace. Because it’s worked so well so far!
You have our permission to build on your land: The State Dept. told Israel that an exception will be made to the “settlement” freeze. How kind of them.
Are real Iranian sanctions starting? Three major oil companies cut their ties with Iran. Hm. Double hm. (Here’s hoping!)
Ew! Jew Cooties! Turkey has rejected Israel’s offer of earthquake aid. But Turkey wants to mediate Israeli-Syrian talks, and are bragging that they’ve been chosen. Netanyahu has denied this. Hey, Turkish dudes, here’s a tip: Cozying up to Iran and Syria aren’t going to make you best buds with Israel.
You say:
The Obama administration is fine with risking Israeli lives:
If it’s any comfort, the Obama administration is fine with risking American lives. Health care needs to be changed so badly, we have to do something. It may work, it may be a catastrophe, but after all, its just American lives at risk. Those peons. Not important people, like Congresspeople or Senators… They after all have their own separate health care plan that would not become part of any proposal…
What was it Orwell said? Some pigs are more equal than others?
The actual quote is “Some animals are more equal than others.”
Literalist…
Nah, it was just one of my favorite books of all time, and I used to know it practically by heart. Never read 1984 until a year or so ago, though. Horrifyingly accurate.
I had a whole long comment about the utility of pigs in this context, but it quickly went downhill and was inappropriate as a comment for your blog, so I cancelled it. But let your imagination roam where I might have been going with it.
Geoffc, you clearly don’t understand the situation as delineated by the administration: 1. The health care situation is so bad we have to do something major right this instant; 2. The Obamacare proposal is the only possible health care reform and if it doesn’t pass there is no other reform or set of reforms that can be enacted: 3. If we don’t do something right now we never will be able to because this is the sole, unique moment in American history at which any sort of health care reform can be offered. If we don’t do it now we can never try something else.
Or so the administration tells us. And why should be not trust them? Cash for clunkers fulfilled its goal, assuming the goal was to spend a couple of billion dollars more than planned, mostly enrich foreign auto manufacturers, and drive up the price of the used cars that poorer people tend to drive. How can we not trust them to manage something much huger just as well?