I believe one of the biggest reasons the US supports Isreal so much is because it keeps countries like Iran, Syria, Lebanon from building a substantial offensive against the US and its interest internationally. Also, it is an ally in a region which we have no other "true" allies. Yeah, we have Saudi arabia and Kuwait but neither are dependible friends. Tell me what you think of this...Bush invaded Iraq not to protect America from "weapons of Mass Destruction" and not to liberate the people of Iraq and not to get the Iraqi oil...but to build a new ally in the region so that the US can use Isreal as a negotiation tool with the rest of the Middle East.
2006-07-21 08:54:24 · 6 answers · asked by Just Speaking the Truth 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Isn't his job to secure the safety of this nation?Whatever keeps the US from becoming one of the small fish in this big pond works for me.
2006-07-21 09:00:33 · answer #1 · answered by bereal1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Would countries like Iran, Syria and Lebanon try to build a substantial offensive against the US and its interests internationally, as you say, if Israel didn't exist since 1948? Just a question. I really would like to know what you or anyone else would like to say on this topic, as I do not know about the history of US-Arab relations before Israel.
Do you really think that the region of Arabs would be fine with the US using Israel as a negotiating tool? The Jews did not go into the Middle East and create the modern day Israel to help the Arabs. They went in to help themselves and it's been madness ever since. I'm not sayng that they are horrible people. All groups have their good and bad. I'm stating this in response to what you said.
The US uses Israel, not as a negotiating tool, but to keep the Arabs in check and that's not necessarily a good thing. It's apparently been backfiring, The superpower using a region's enemy to keep that region in check is not the best tactic.
Don't let the fall of Saddam fool you. The US has been helping to keep the Middle Eastern dictators in power because it's been proven useful to the US. Fomer president Jimmy Carter even said this. US Middle East policy has got to change, starting with not unconditionally supporting Israel. It's single-minded, irresponsible, self-serving, demeaning and counterproductive to peace.
I'm not even going to get into what you said about the oil.
2006-07-21 09:50:05 · answer #2 · answered by Happy! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I couldn't disagree with you more. Bush's motivation to invade Iraq was largely to gain power for himself. He manufactured a climate of fear telling the world that Saddam had WMD. Yes Israel is the only true ally in the Middle East (in Saudi Arabia they are taught at an early age to hate America), but if Bush wanted to create another ally this didn't happen I'm not even sure if the Iraqi government that exists today even likes the US. If anything Bush say a change after 9/11 to take out an enemy to his family (Saddam tried to kill Bush Sr.) and further control the American people with his broken ideology. Bush has created what is very close to an elected dictatorship. Signs are clear: if you speak out against the war you are labeled a supporter of terrorism or unpatriotic, the only people I see making any gains are Bush's friends (namely the super rich) and the rest of the people are paying (the IRS has switched from a refund agency to a collector agency), laws that are passed or vetoed support the fact that Bush is not the middle of the road republican he painted himself as but a true and complete conservative. All of Bush's talk is completely rhetoric: banning gay marriage, terrorism yellow alerts are all to distract Americans from real issues and that is to further widen the power of the presidency.
2006-07-21 09:09:40 · answer #3 · answered by cancerman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-10 13:10:22 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's exactly the way europeans people analyse american's politic with Middle East.
Nice to read at last !
2006-07-21 09:22:29 · answer #5 · answered by Agathe 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The USA policy in the middle east is based on no sound policy . look at Iraq war. look at Israeli wars. no lasting peace policy.
2006-07-21 10:13:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋