Clairol’s old ad asked the tantalizing question, “Does she, or doesn’t she?” posing the Earth-shaking question of whether some woman dyed her hair or not but subliminally asking all kinds of other questions about said woman and what she does and doesn’t do.

The title question, “Will she, or won’t she?” is similarly packed with innuendo but related to significantly more profound import, namely, Will Israel attack Iran before Iran   is nuclear-capable and missile-capable of reducing much of Israel to a glowing, molten puddle.

The stakes are incredibly high, not only for the State of Israel   but for the United States, the Mid East, Western Europe, and much of the rest of the globe.

Should Israel stage a pre-emptive assault on Ahmadinejad’s nuclear and nuclear- delivery facilities, it would face a severely adverse reaction from a world and a United Nations which historically haven’t wildly embraced either Jews or their homeland.  Should Israel not attack Iran and have one or more of its cities obliterated, its retaliation against Iran would surely be far worse than pre-emptive surgical strikes.

What to do?

To say the geopolitical situation is complex and grave would be gross oversimplification.  Israel has often shown it doesn’t conduct its foreign policy with a watchful, cautious eye toward international or American opinion even though the United States is its chief benefactor, arms supplier, and possibly its lone, reliable ally.  However, change is in the air and its new, feisty prime minister, Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu seems well aware that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are no George Bush and Condi Rice. 

The Bush administration often demonstrated a total, unflinching commitment to the State of Israel.  Despite the support of the vast majority of American Jewish voters for Obama and despite the very powerful Jewish Lobby in this country, the Obama administration has been less than committed, and Bibi is well aware of that as well.

What to do?

Political considerations are never simple matters.  Even Julius Caesar, backed by the indomitable Roman army, had to placate, cajole, and intimidate when necessary the various factions in Rome as well as in the provinces.  Israel is no Rome and Netanyahu is no Caesar and his options are very few and very limited.

How would the United States react to such a strike?  Israel has acted unilaterally before when it staged successful raids on Libya and at Entebbe . . .
(Read the rest at http://genelalor.com/)

POOR BRITS: MALAISE OR CASUALTY?

Apparently, the effects of decades of living in a socialist, diverse paradise are catching up with our cousins across the Pond.  http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200806/CUL20080626c.html

“Why is everyone so bloody miserable?” asks Tom Harris, Labor Member of Parliament, who’s “tired of the ‘crippling levels of cynicism and pessimism’ in British society.”

Let’s just examine the possible causes of that malaise and negativism.  A long history of despoiling the planet, of conquering much of the known world and a bloody subjugation of its closest neighbor, Ireland?  The subsequent collapse of that same British Empire?  A descent into socialism which effectively deprives the individual of his personhood?   A resulting disintegration of the character and moral fiber of the nation and its people?

Or, could it be a vision of a future in which Muslims will rule their small island and which already has instilled a fear of flying the British flag in its capital?” http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2006/06/ayaan_hirsi_ali.html 

                                 GITMO: WAR AND REMEMBRANCE

June 26th, 2008

As far as I can recall, no one ever said that war is fun.  As far as I can recall, no one ever said that prisons should be fun places, either.  Still, the Muslim prisoners being kept in Guantanamo have it pretty damned good especially considering why they are there–as terrorist suspects who not only despise America but who may have killed Americans and who, given the chance, would kill as many of our troops in Iraq as they could and perpetrate even more heinous atrocities on our soil. 

We could house them and treat them in a Club Med atmosphere, accord them all the rights and privileges accorded our domestic prisoners, including law libraries, gym facilities, conjugal visits (i.e., sexual romps), etc. and then release them so they could continue their terrorist ways.

Instead, we merely provide, “basic supplies, such as clothing, towels, sheets, blankets, soap, shampoo, toothbrush and toothpaste.
They also are given a copy of the Koran and three ‘culturally appropriate’ meals. Prayer rugs also are distributed, and a recorded call to prayer is broadcast five times a day.”

I wonder if Lee and AIUSA officials witnessed the horrendous events of September 11th, 2001 or if they would care if we suffered another such attack? 

War is Hell.  Keep that in mind, AIUSA and Mr. Lee!