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Why does the United States have to defend Israel?
Mr. Purrington 05-16-2008, 4:34 AM | Post #2518404 |  42 Replies
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Israel has a state of the art Army, Air Force, Navy complete with an arsenal of weapons including nuclear devices.

Israel alone defeated several Arab nations in the 7-Days War.

Israel alone bombed and destroyed the suspected nuclear facilities in Iraq.

Israel should be perfectly capable of defending herself against Iran, Syria or any other nation(s) in her neighborhood.

Certainly the United States is an ally of Israel's but like any other sovereign nation Israel should protect herself first before the United States or any other nations sheds its own lifes blood for her.

Thank you

Mr. Purrington

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Re: Why does the United States have to defend Israel?
EagleTed 05-16-2008, 4:53 AM | Post #2518408
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Careful, your ally pudman is going to correct your spelling of "live's" blood. He's a stickler for good English.

As far as your point, it's valid. However, it's been a long time since the Seven Day's War, and since then other conflicts have shown how vulnerable Israel is. The Yom Kippur War could have gone either way, and incursions into Lebanon have shown Israel no longer has the might to push their enemies around without paying a high price.

America will always defend herself first. Nonetheless, we will not ever allow the Arabs to overrun Israel. No more than we'd allow Russia to overrun Canada or China to overrun Australia. 

And BTW, America has no troops stationed in Israel, yet has thousands in the much more richer Germany. It would make sense to move all the troops in Germany to Israel, it would put them closer to our enemies. Although the Islamofascists would use it as a propaganda tool. 

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Re: Why does the United States have to defend Israel?
Mark49 05-16-2008, 6:17 AM | Post #2518414
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We don't have to defend Israel. But the next time they are attacked, don't go whining when their Merkava tanks are rolling into Damascus like we did into Berlin.

Mark 

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Ted,
pudman 05-16-2008, 10:30 AM | Post #2518500
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"life"s blood" ( not live's blood ) would be correct as  it is preceded by the 3rd person singular possessive. Mark did indeed miss that nasty apostrophe. It is true that ever since I single handedly crushed Ebonics I have been on a mission to spread good grammar, spelling and writing to my under educated Caucasian hermanos/hermanas as well. We are all Yanks. Kumbaya, baby.
I don't know that we "have to"
mshimko 05-16-2008, 4:11 PM | Post #2518621
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I do know we tend to support democracies, especially lone democracies in an area of dictatorships.

I know we have supported Israel over the year, while the Soviet Union supported Arab dictatorships over the years.

I think we should continue to support democracies which stand up to terrorists.

//mjs

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Re: Why does the United States have to defend Israel?
mldeerslayer 05-16-2008, 4:25 PM | Post #2518628
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We're now supporting both Israel and Iraq-- two bitter enemies. Strange, but true.

ML

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Re: Why does the United States have to defend Israel?
Governor 05-16-2008, 4:29 PM | Post #2518630
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We are supporting a new Iraq, not the old Iraq that wants to destroy Israel.  The people may still hate each other, but they are not bitter enemies any more so than France and Germany or Poland and Russia. 
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Re: Why does the United States have to defend Israel?
mldeerslayer 05-16-2008, 4:55 PM | Post #2518637
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Governor:

The people may still hate each other, 

 

Thanks for confirming what I said.

We now support an Iraq controlled by elected officials who are controlled by Islamic religious leaders. The current man with the power is Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.

ML

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Re: Ted,
Mark49 05-16-2008, 4:59 PM | Post #2518638
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pudman:
"life"s blood" ( not live's blood ) would be correct as  it is preceded by the 3rd person singular possessive. Mark did indeed miss that nasty apostrophe. It is true that ever since I single handedly crushed Ebonics I have been on a mission to spread good grammar, spelling and writing to my under educated Caucasian hermanos/hermanas as well. We are all Yanks. Kumbaya, baby.

 

If you are going to stand on your pedestal criticise, pudman, get it right. I never used the phrase.

 

Mark 

Re: Why does the United States have to defend Israel?
pudman 05-16-2008, 5:01 PM | Post #2518639
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S***, I must've been hungover. When did Saudi Arabia  become a shining beacon of democratic light and boon companion of the Hebrews?
Re: Why does the United States have to defend Israel?
pudman 05-16-2008, 5:07 PM | Post #2518642
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Sorry Mark, that was Mr. P who sinned. My apologies.

p.s.  "  to criticize " 

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Governor 05-16-2008, 5:20 PM | Post #2518654
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huh?
Re: Why does the United States have to defend Israel?
Mark49 05-16-2008, 5:35 PM | Post #2518663
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pudman:

Sorry Mark, that was Mr. P who sinned. My apologies.

p.s.  "  to criticize " 

 

critic: One inclined to find fault.

 

Mark 

Re: Why does the United States have to defend Israel?
Chang 05-16-2008, 9:58 PM | Post #2518743
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