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Posted by goldielocks @ 14:12 on May 1, 2018  

I wonder if the people in Israel ever get tired of being draged into war but then wonder the same thing about the neighboring countries.
There is a Jewish satire , which one are you Jew type list. On the list is a Bibi type that goes he never met a non Jew he didn’t want to bomb. Hope Israeli stays safe.
Our founding fathers warned us to stay out of permanent alliances. There was wisdom in that. It was going on then, it still is.
They got us involved in a lot of wars.
They get the young ignorant but for most part not stupid to do their bidding…

Alliances, we had always felt, were not our sort of thing. They would involve us in obscure quarrels and sordid rivalries which were none of our concern. They seemed to be both undesirable and unnecessary in view of our special geographic and political circumstances.

“It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliance with any portion of the foreign world”: it was George Washington’s Farewell Address to us. The inaugural pledge of Thomas Jefferson was no less clear: “Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations-entangling alliances with none.”

It became more than a policy; it became an expression of a national point of view about ourselves and our place in the world, a view which contrasted the simple virtues of our Republic with the subtle and complex qualities (some said corruptions) of Europe. From 1789 until the Second World War, excepting only our relationship with Panama, the United States refused to enter into treaties of alliance with anyone. In the 25 years since the end of the war, however, in a dramatic reversal of national policy, we have allied ourselves with half the world.

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