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Majority Of Israelis Want Romney As President

no suggestion required
he is your run of the mill chickenhawk
always willing to let someone else and someone else's kids fight the wars he chooses


but he did keep paris from being overrun by the viet cong while on mission

While in France he may have spoken, first hand, with people who know, first hand, that you must maintain a strong stand in the face of aggression such as Iran's push to develop nukes...and such as what all of Western Europe failed to do in the face of Hitler.
 
I could have told you this without polling. The religious far right in the USA and the religious far right in israel are the only friends those two bunches have in the world. Noone else can stand them, including the non-religious, non-far right of both those countries. Meanwhile, all the western allies, Japan, south korea, and pretty much all other countries as well prefer Obama by huge margins. Hmmm, religious ultra-conservative ½ of israel and religious ultra-conservative ½ of USA (and pakistan) versus the rest of the planet...

America, you will be disappointed to learn, is a predominantly religious society and a predominantly Conservative nation.

This will be made clear to you next week as Obama wonders what happened to the support he thought he had.
 
Nor should they. But not standing down and fighting those who actually attacked you is not equal to just attacking and invading any old country you want. There is a real difference.

Are those the horror stories told among liberal circle jerks about Romney?
 
Jews for the most part are strongly liberal. There is one issue though that weighs on them, Iran. Not surprisingly they want an American president who seems most likely to attack Iran as they wish. Being that Romney is the Republican nominee for president he is a shoe in. I can't say I blame the Israeli's much. If i were living there I'd probably want the more "trigger happy" president... or at least the one that appears that way, to be in power. If nothing more than making you feel more comfortable, it would be a good thing.
 
Jews for the most part are strongly liberal. There is one issue though that weighs on them, Iran. Not surprisingly they want an American president who seems most likely to attack Iran as they wish. Being that Romney is the Republican nominee for president he is a shoe in. I can't say I blame the Israeli's much. If i were living there I'd probably want the more "trigger happy" president... or at least the one that appears that way, to be in power. If nothing more than making you feel more comfortable, it would be a good thing.


What makes you think that Romney is the "more trigger happy" choice? Hell, in the third debate, all the way back 2 whole weeks ago, Liberals criticized Romney for being too much like Obama in what he would do concerning Israel....So what are you and others talking about....?
 
I find it intersting that many Conservative voters are against foreign aid, want to focus on America, want to stop fighting wars in the middle east but yet they put so much emphasis on what Israeli think. ( a tiny county in the middle east that has never fought alongside American soldeirs)

To be fair, for the past 60 years Israel has been a toehold of relative democracy and stability in the Middle East, as well as a toehold for Western civilization to exert influence in the Middle East, which has the largest concentration of oil reserves to be accessed, after the collapse of the British Empire and reverting European colonies to self rule.

However, that democracy has been undermined by politicians who campaign on tough stances against the hostile Islamist countries around it. These politicians tell their people, "Vote for me and I'll protect you from all these threats!" And so Israeli voters have.

However, what that also means is that such Israeli politicians have a vested interest in maintaining tensions with hostile nations so that their campaign platform remains relevant.

And, to be fair to the the Israelis, the same thing goes on with the Palestinians. They use ancient religious causes to justify modern hostilities to convince the Palestinian people to provide them with power. Which means that they, too, have vested interests in maintaining hostilities.

And it's the Palestinian and Israeli people who get caught in the crossfire, even though they have more in common with each other than they do with the elites who lead their respective people.

As to why American conservatives are so diehard in their support of Israel, it is because of Christian apocalyptic religious beliefs held by American fundamentalist Christians, which Israeli politicians are more than willing to exploit for their own benefit.

tl;dr : read the "Dune" series by Frank Herbert.
 
To be fair, for the past 60 years Israel has been a toehold of relative democracy and stability in the Middle East, as well as a toehold for Western civilization to exert influence in the Middle East, which has the largest concentration of oil reserves to be accessed, after the collapse of the British Empire and reverting European colonies to self rule.

However, that democracy has been undermined by politicians who campaign on tough stances against the hostile Islamist countries around it. These politicians tell their people, "Vote for me and I'll protect you from all these threats!" And so Israeli voters have.

However, what that also means is that such Israeli politicians have a vested interest in maintaining tensions with hostile nations so that their campaign platform remains relevant.

And, to be fair to the the Israelis, the same thing goes on with the Palestinians. They use ancient religious causes to justify modern hostilities to convince the Palestinian people to provide them with power. Which means that they, too, have vested interests in maintaining hostilities.

And it's the Palestinian and Israeli people who get caught in the crossfire, even though they have more in common with each other than they do with the elites who lead their respective people.

As to why American conservatives are so diehard in their support of Israel, it is because of Christian apocalyptic religious beliefs held by American fundamentalist Christians, which Israeli politicians are more than willing to exploit for their own benefit.

tl;dr : read the "Dune" series by Frank Herbert.


Tell me sam, How's the "let's make Islamist radicals our friends" strategy working out in Benghazi for ya?
 
wow, i did not realize Gary Johnson had any role in government today
please offer a cite showing he was responsible for any 'stand down' order


That rock you're under must be nice and cozy.
 
Tell me sam, How's the "let's make Islamist radicals our friends" strategy working out in Benghazi for ya?

Because Qaddafi had so much respect for the Vienna convention.....
 
Ah, so the opinions of foreigners count when the foreigners agree with you. :lol:
 
Are those the horror stories told among liberal circle jerks about Romney?

I'm not sure what you're asking. We were speaking about war in general. Read your comment again, the one I responded to, and then read my reply and see if you can find where you went wrong.
 
Tell me sam, How's the "let's make Islamist radicals our friends" strategy working out in Benghazi for ya?

About as same as your strategy on keeping our energy policy focused on fuels found primarily in an area known for its instability and religious zealotry for thousands of years.
 
Ah, so the opinions of foreigners count when the foreigners agree with you. :lol:

I was told the whole world loved Obama, so I guess that was wrong. Actually in most cases what non-American think about our internal affairs is irrelevant.
 
Interesting. Obama will get 90% of the Jewish vote here in the States.

American Jews, please call your friends and family in Israel to get some sense knocked in to you :2razz:

The article I read has Israeli Jews for Obama and Israeli Arabs for Romney.
 
Obama is such a good friend of Israel, that they would pick Romney....

Israel doesn't get a say, they can **** off with the rest of them.
 
What makes you think that Romney is the "more trigger happy" choice? Hell, in the third debate, all the way back 2 whole weeks ago, Liberals criticized Romney for being too much like Obama in what he would do concerning Israel....So what are you and others talking about....?

Romney's rhetoric has been more of the tough guy cowboy, shoot from the hip and ask questions later variety. Whether he really thinks this way who knows, but being of the (R) group naturally he has to do this. Which one is actually more trigger happy is anyone's guess, appearances though favor Romney.
 
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