Heard Rove speaking on Hugh Hewitt show where he said Obama insists on intelligence reports being delivered in writing rather than coming from specialist briefers - if true that pretty much tells me all I need to know about Obama and why his foreign policy practice is so god awful - what it tells me is that he believes what he believes, he has zero interest in questioning those beliefs and little tolerance of someone else maybe challenging them, and if stubborn facts refuse to comport with those beliefs he doesn't care because as far as he’s concerned he’s smarter than the facts.
This dynamic was clearly on display in recent Gaza action - even if one opposed the Israeli action and could manage to summon up something of a coherent argument as to why, once the extent of the terror tunnels became obvious all opposition to the Israeli action was rendered irrelevant and no longer governed by reality and common sense - not for Obama who continued to resist the logic of it in both word and deed as we now know [the denial of arms shipments] - and this was true of all other lefties out there. Why? Because the tunnels proved Netanyahu et al right - that the Palestinians are not really interested in peace, or rather that the only peace they're really interested in is one that involves Israel’s implied or explicit destruction, which is why until Hamas is done away with and whatever's left over fully acknowledges Israel’s right to exist and Israel’s security needs are subsequently treated with utmost seriousness no agreement is possible - what the Israeli right has been saying for quite awhile is now proven true and Obama and all his lefty pals simply cannot admit to that because such an admission would tear down just about every naive sympathy they cling to.
Think about how illogical or misbegotten the left’s approach to Israel is: in order to isolate it and thereby force it into an agreement no one, left or right, in Israel any longer feels could be trusted, you have to by implication serve the interests and tactics of the Islamist extremists by in effect contributing to the delegitimization of Israel - and once you've done that, why should people committed to the destruction of Israel bother with compromise? The Islamist extremists have created a zero sum game: you're either with Israel or you’re by implication with them - and it’s amazing how many idiots in the West have chosen to be against Israel. Sure, they may not see it quite in those terms, but that in effect is the result you get to by naively believing in a peace that can never happen so long as Palestinians and all Islamists are wedded to preconditions and an ideological intolerance at odds with Israel’s survival.
This dynamic was clearly on display in recent Gaza action - even if one opposed the Israeli action and could manage to summon up something of a coherent argument as to why, once the extent of the terror tunnels became obvious all opposition to the Israeli action was rendered irrelevant and no longer governed by reality and common sense - not for Obama who continued to resist the logic of it in both word and deed as we now know [the denial of arms shipments] - and this was true of all other lefties out there. Why? Because the tunnels proved Netanyahu et al right - that the Palestinians are not really interested in peace, or rather that the only peace they're really interested in is one that involves Israel’s implied or explicit destruction, which is why until Hamas is done away with and whatever's left over fully acknowledges Israel’s right to exist and Israel’s security needs are subsequently treated with utmost seriousness no agreement is possible - what the Israeli right has been saying for quite awhile is now proven true and Obama and all his lefty pals simply cannot admit to that because such an admission would tear down just about every naive sympathy they cling to.
Think about how illogical or misbegotten the left’s approach to Israel is: in order to isolate it and thereby force it into an agreement no one, left or right, in Israel any longer feels could be trusted, you have to by implication serve the interests and tactics of the Islamist extremists by in effect contributing to the delegitimization of Israel - and once you've done that, why should people committed to the destruction of Israel bother with compromise? The Islamist extremists have created a zero sum game: you're either with Israel or you’re by implication with them - and it’s amazing how many idiots in the West have chosen to be against Israel. Sure, they may not see it quite in those terms, but that in effect is the result you get to by naively believing in a peace that can never happen so long as Palestinians and all Islamists are wedded to preconditions and an ideological intolerance at odds with Israel’s survival.
