I truly don't understand those arguing that Israel is in a no win situation with its invasion of Gaza and therefore should in essence surrender to the status quo which does nothing but serve the interests of Hamas and would mean agreeing to a cease fire that Obama and his merry band of foreign policy morons are now pushing hard for - not that I don't agree that Israel has nothing but bad choices here, but given that you still must choose and therefore you logically choose the option that offers the most potential upside no matter how tentative or tenuous that upside might be - and given the circumstances the only rational choice was to invade Gaza regardless of how problematic a thing that is.
The complicating factor isn't the decision to invade which far as I'm concerned was the only decision Israel could make given the intransigence of Hamas and the existential threat which it is a baleful manifestation of - the complicating factor is the inability of the Obama administration to see the logic of this and consequently to speak and act in ways that do nothing but serve the interests of Hamas [and by inference all Islamist entities that think and act as they do] while undercutting the interests of Israel. This dynamic was clearly on display on Sunday with Kerry's off mic comments on Fox News where his putative support of Israel's right to defend itself was completely undone by his expression of near contempt for Israel's practicing of the right - these comments by Kerry clearly indicate that either he and Obama are lying when they say they support Israel's right to defend itself or are operating under a complete delusion regarding what that defense could or should entail.
The question is: why do Obama and his people act so foolishly? Can't be because they're stupid, these aren't stupid people - and it can't be mere incompetence, the impression of incompetence that so overwhelms when considering Obama et al is rather I think the reflection of a something else - and that something else I would say is ideological arrogance which precludes them from forming or developing a coherent understanding of the real threats operating in the real world because seeing the world in those terms would undermine the sympathies they're predisposed to cling to - in order to preserve these illusions they concoct fanciful notions and vain theories that rationalize away the need to act in ways which they find to varying degrees repugnant - they fail to understand the value and uses of military power because they are ideologically predisposed to scorn such things and this naive prejudice is the thing that ends up looking like incompetence.
A nice little article over at The Daily Caller by an anonymous Pentagon official makes roughly the same point - he does so in reference to the foreign policy inanities of Rand Paul and why the man should therefore be allowed nowhere near the Oval Office, but the argument made applies in equal measure to Obama and his sycophants. I'm guessing there are a whole lot of people inside the Pentagon and scattered throughout the officer class of the US military who are deeply, deeply worried about what's going on in American foreign policy right now, both in practice and theory.
The complicating factor isn't the decision to invade which far as I'm concerned was the only decision Israel could make given the intransigence of Hamas and the existential threat which it is a baleful manifestation of - the complicating factor is the inability of the Obama administration to see the logic of this and consequently to speak and act in ways that do nothing but serve the interests of Hamas [and by inference all Islamist entities that think and act as they do] while undercutting the interests of Israel. This dynamic was clearly on display on Sunday with Kerry's off mic comments on Fox News where his putative support of Israel's right to defend itself was completely undone by his expression of near contempt for Israel's practicing of the right - these comments by Kerry clearly indicate that either he and Obama are lying when they say they support Israel's right to defend itself or are operating under a complete delusion regarding what that defense could or should entail.
The question is: why do Obama and his people act so foolishly? Can't be because they're stupid, these aren't stupid people - and it can't be mere incompetence, the impression of incompetence that so overwhelms when considering Obama et al is rather I think the reflection of a something else - and that something else I would say is ideological arrogance which precludes them from forming or developing a coherent understanding of the real threats operating in the real world because seeing the world in those terms would undermine the sympathies they're predisposed to cling to - in order to preserve these illusions they concoct fanciful notions and vain theories that rationalize away the need to act in ways which they find to varying degrees repugnant - they fail to understand the value and uses of military power because they are ideologically predisposed to scorn such things and this naive prejudice is the thing that ends up looking like incompetence.
A nice little article over at The Daily Caller by an anonymous Pentagon official makes roughly the same point - he does so in reference to the foreign policy inanities of Rand Paul and why the man should therefore be allowed nowhere near the Oval Office, but the argument made applies in equal measure to Obama and his sycophants. I'm guessing there are a whole lot of people inside the Pentagon and scattered throughout the officer class of the US military who are deeply, deeply worried about what's going on in American foreign policy right now, both in practice and theory.