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Re: Hello again! (Reply to this comment)
by macresarf1
True, Maurice!
"Operation Handbrake" has been hanging fire for two years now because Our President was persuaded that it was too risky to give it the go-ahead.
Israel's right wing Likud leadership has been implementing the plan piecemeal, with results (and atrocities) in Lebanon and Palestine satisfactory to no one except Hamas and Hezbollah, least of all, ordinary Israelis and Palestinians.
Let's hope that Obama avoids being drawn into Sudetenland-like ruse.
Alex
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Jan 06 '09
12:28 pm PST
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Hello again! (Reply to this comment)
by ASourdough4
It is difficult to shake the notion that the fuss in Gaza is a distraction and shield for a shot at Iran???
Happy? New Year and New President
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Jan 06 '09
5:50 am PST
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Re: Alex, (Reply to this comment)
by macresarf1
Paul: I fully understand your position.
And until you have now made an issue of it, I would be the last person to suggest, knowing what I do of you, that you would have provided me with any of the views I express here.
Indeed, all that I wrote on this subject, originally, was in reaction to your current Epinions essay. My response was in no way in collaboration with you on your piece. That, truly, should be made very clear, for those who might hold such a misapprehension against you. I should have provided a link to it, so that others might profit from your thinking.
I will do that now.
God-speed home, Paul.
Alex
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Jan 05 '09
4:28 pm PST
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Alex, (Reply to this comment)
by colonialpara
I see that you and I will never agree on most things. You seem to forget that I am in a combat theater and cannot comment as freely as I might like.
That said, please do not attribute anything in your diatribes against the current President to me. Whatever I might think of him and his administration must remain "in reserve" until after he leaves office.
That said, for your other readers, let it be known that I am a member of the armed forces and a conservative. Alex's comments here are purely his and not mine.
Colonialpara
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Jan 05 '09
8:12 am PST
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Re: Amen (Reply to this comment)
by macresarf1
Thank you, Barbara. Same to you.
At first, I didn't know what you meant by a meet n' greet next week. Now, I've checked it out. Alas, I don't travel well now, and i have no easy way down to Burlingame. I'll probably have to pass.
Take care.
Alex
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Jan 05 '09
12:02 am PST
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Re: Judging from his pronouncements... (Reply to this comment)
by macresarf1
Yes, Vic: No American politician can long afford to be critical of the often bizarre Israeli political system, foreign policy, and security attitudes. [A number of the Bush Administration acts -- The Project for a New American Century developed originally for the Likud's Benjamin Netanyahu, WMD [selected] Intelligence supporting an attack on Iraq from the Mossad, some of Bush/Cheney's torture methods shared with Israeli Intelligence by way of the KBG and Gestapo blueprints, etc] But if there is a time, it is now, and at the beginning of Obama's Administration. He can either knock the heads of these two intrangisent groups together, after sixty years of mayhem on both sides, or he can knuckle under.
We shall have to see.
Alex
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Jan 04 '09
11:59 pm PST
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Amen (Reply to this comment)
by ifif1938
I couldn't agree with you more and hate that last comment .........
I will drink or smoke or whatever to Obama and hope for the best he can do with what he has to endure from the legacy of the Bushmeister. This will not be an easy presidentcy and I pray for his cool to remain cool in the face of what he has to face soon.
Thanks for writing this...Enjoy the meet and greet next week ...I wish you a happy, healthy and safe new year
best always
Barbara
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Jan 04 '09
5:42 pm PST
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Judging from his pronouncements... (Reply to this comment)
by vicfar
Obama will be a staunch Israel supporter, and the job of cleaning up the Middle East would have to start right there. There are no indications that Obama will not continue to support Israel's genocide of the Palestinians.
OK, let's keep an open mind....
Happy New Year to you!
Vic
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Jan 04 '09
2:18 pm PST
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Re: line breaks, falling expectations (Reply to this comment)
by macresarf1
I agree, Stephen.
But we shall have to wait to see what dynamics develop within this team, and what challenges present themselves besides the obviously monumental ones left almost exclusively by the Bush Administration. Plus, we have yet to see what adjustments President Obama will make in his thinking, once he sees all the cards he's been dealt, not to mention those grubby ones strewn under the table.
We really don't know who President Obama will turn out to be.
As you suggest, it is hard to imagine anyone worse than George W. Bush has been.
To the Future!
Alex
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Jan 03 '09
9:50 pm PST
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line breaks, falling expectations (Reply to this comment)
by Stephen_Murray
just a return will do!
In that W is widely seen as the worst president ever, doing worse is a challenge, but when I voted for Obama in the primary I hoped for more than a third Clinton term, which it what the appointments look like to me (and I don't just mean secretary of state). There had better be something to make up for Rick Warren starting the show...
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Jan 03 '09
4:49 pm PST
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Re: Pres Elect Obama (Reply to this comment)
by macresarf1
Thank you, Mike.
Sorry that the Epinions system defeated my attempt to make the piece easy to read.
Alex
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Jan 03 '09
4:37 pm PST
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Pres Elect Obama (Reply to this comment)
by toiletoctopus
Mac,
I'm with you and think he's the right man for the job. I do feel sorry for him though, because what a mess we are in, on an international scale that has never been seen since at least WWII.
Happy New Year by the way, and a toast of champagne to the end of the Bush Era,
Mike
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Jan 03 '09
3:28 pm PST
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