Greenwald: Rutten, Ahmadinejad, Biden, Palin

In Salon Radio: L.A. Times' Tim Rutten on Ahmadinejad Glen Greenwald notes the following:

UPDATE: On an obviously related note, this was the exchange I found most striking in last night's Biden-Palin debate:

BIDEN: Gwen, no one in the United States Senate has been a better friend to Israel than Joe Biden. I would have never, ever joined this ticket were I not absolutely sure Barack Obama shared my passion. . . .

PALIN: But I'm so encouraged to know that we both love Israel, and I think that is a good thing to get to agree on, Sen. Biden. I respect your position on that.

They don't just consider Israel an ally. They don't just both support Israel. No, that's woefully inadequate. Instead: Biden has a "passion" for Israel and is its best friend, while Palin declares how excited she is that they "both love Israel."

They "love Israel"? I'm asking this literally, not rhetorically: is there any other country in the world where presidential candidates are required to -- or even could -- proclaim their "passion" and "love" for another country in a national election? And other than Israel, is there any country for which candidates for the American presidency could get away with proclaiming their "passion" and "love"? It's not exactly healthy or rational for someone who wants to lead one country to swear their fealty, passion and love for another.

The whole blog entry is worth reading while listening to the Rutten interview is also extremely interesting even if Greenwald needs to work on his interviewing technique.

Does "love Israel" mean that the USA continues to send billions of dollars to Israel even as the US banking system collapses, the US economy goes into recession, and Americans are put out on the street via home foreclosures?

The USA has spent trillions of dollars on Zionism. Now is definitely time to recoup some of that money by liquidating Israel and seizing the assets of Zionist terror supporters and corrupt Wall Street bankers. These two groups are not disjoint. Henry Paulson used to be CEO of Goldman Sachs. He had no problem with the tanking of Goldman competitor of Lehman Brothers. but rescued AIG on which Goldman depended.

Warren Buffet, who is a big non-Jewish booster of the State of Israel and who has made tremendous amounts of money by investing in US-subsidized Israeli corporations that steal customers and jobs from American businesses, is heavily invested in both Goldman Sachs and AIG.
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Condoleezza Rice's Comedy Routine

There is really nothing to add to this Greenwald piece except that back when Condi was a Sovietologist, her academic achievements were meager, and she was in the process of moving out of the scholar track before the fall of the Soviet Union. To put it another way, if she were a great scholar, it would have been a waste of her time to serve as Stanford Provost. Her Wikipedia page states,

According to R. Nicholas Burns, President [George H. W.] Bush was "captivated" by Rice, and relied heavily on her advice in his dealings with Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin.

In other words, no one deserves the Caucasus mess more than she does. We can wish her success in her new career as a stand-up comedienne once she and George W. Bush leave their respective offices.

Rice: Military power is "not the way to deal in the 21st century"

It's hardly news that the U.S., like many countries, espouses standards that it routinely violates, but still, even in light of such routine hypocrisy, wouldn't you think that this, from Condoleezza Rice today, on an airplane to U.S. reporters while traveling to a NATO meeting, would be too brazen to utter:

Russia is a state that is unfortunately using the one tool that it has always used whenever it wishes to deliver a message and that's its military power. That's not the way to deal in the 21st century.

Whatever one's views are on the justifiability of each isolated instance, it's simply a fact that the U.S. invades, bombs, occupies, and interferes in the internal affairs of other countries far more than any other country on the planet. It's not even a close competition.

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Vital unresolved anthrax questions and ABC News

Fabricating Casus Belli

Vital unresolved anthrax questions and ABC News by Glenn Greenwald is so interesting that I have to point this blog's readers to it, and it really does have Jewish-Islamic element that connects it to the theme of this blog.

According to Greenwald Bruce E. Ivins, the alleged anthrax letter assassin, sent the following message in 2006 to the Maryland Frederick News in apparent condemnation of interfaith dialogue.

Rabbi Morris Kosman is entirely correct in summarily rejecting the demands of the Frederick Imam for a "dialogue."

By blood and faith, Jews are God's chosen, and have no need for "dialogue" with any gentile. End of "dialogue."

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