Not sure why my comment keeps getting deleted. Just trying to point out that Mr. Drum's article is inaccurate and tinged with racism. Read with caution.
Reasonable people, you say? 94% of Israelis supported Operation Cast Lead--66% saying they believe the assault ended too early (57% want another strike).
I was going include numbers from other polls, but I think that says it all.
Are you serious dude? I think you have it backwards. Palestinians acknowledge that Israelis exist...it's pretty difficult to ignore them when they are actively stealing your land and denying you basic human rights. It is the Israelis that effectively wiped Palestine off the map and continue to deny that it ever existed.
Much like you, professor, whenever possible, Berube asserts that the goal of the NATO intervention was to prevent a massacre and protect Libyan civilians (without providing any evidence)..."humanitarian bombing," if you will (this concept only exists in the west). We are supposed to believe that the governments of the US, Britain, and France are the only ones that care about civilians in Libya, and that the only way to express that concern is with NATO bombing campaigns.
I didn't support the bombing because I understood immediately that it was more about positioning for future oil contracts, and punishing Gaddhafi for being an unreliable client. I saw NATO turn a largely nonviolent revolution into a drawn-out, bloody civil war (remember, Benghazi was taken without firing a shot.) NATO didn't "keep alive the Arab spring," as Berube laughably claims with questionable syntax...NATO hijacked it.
Public opinion polling in Egypt (and elsewhere in the Arab world) shows a tremendously negative view of the United States and it's client state Israel. If any sort of representative government were to come to power in Egypt, it may be more hostile to Israel and U.S. meddling.
This is one obvious way that democracy in Egypt is against US interests...doesn't seem so woolly to me.
Not sure why my comment keeps getting deleted. Just trying to point out that Mr. Drum's article is inaccurate and tinged with racism. Read with caution.
That article is trash. Absolutely disgusting.
This is a dumb comment.
SlutWalks have nothing to do with sexual liberation, are counterproductive, and in my opinion, mildly racist.
We do not need more SlutWalks.
Reasonable people, you say? 94% of Israelis supported Operation Cast Lead--66% saying they believe the assault ended too early (57% want another strike).
I was going include numbers from other polls, but I think that says it all.
Are you serious dude? I think you have it backwards. Palestinians acknowledge that Israelis exist...it's pretty difficult to ignore them when they are actively stealing your land and denying you basic human rights. It is the Israelis that effectively wiped Palestine off the map and continue to deny that it ever existed.
You need to get with it, man.
Much like you, professor, whenever possible, Berube asserts that the goal of the NATO intervention was to prevent a massacre and protect Libyan civilians (without providing any evidence)..."humanitarian bombing," if you will (this concept only exists in the west). We are supposed to believe that the governments of the US, Britain, and France are the only ones that care about civilians in Libya, and that the only way to express that concern is with NATO bombing campaigns.
I didn't support the bombing because I understood immediately that it was more about positioning for future oil contracts, and punishing Gaddhafi for being an unreliable client. I saw NATO turn a largely nonviolent revolution into a drawn-out, bloody civil war (remember, Benghazi was taken without firing a shot.) NATO didn't "keep alive the Arab spring," as Berube laughably claims with questionable syntax...NATO hijacked it.
Public opinion polling in Egypt (and elsewhere in the Arab world) shows a tremendously negative view of the United States and it's client state Israel. If any sort of representative government were to come to power in Egypt, it may be more hostile to Israel and U.S. meddling.
This is one obvious way that democracy in Egypt is against US interests...doesn't seem so woolly to me.
Just one question...do you think NATO would have intervened if Libya did not have oil?