President Obama is intelligent, thoughtful and engaged. He is not a warmongering moron.

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10. I agree for the most part

The US will do what the Us wants to do and Israel can back it, pan it, or stand in the corner eating boogers. Theyr'e a client state, as is Saudi Arabia, and the control only flows from, not to Washington.

In fact the case of Iran proves this... ISrael has been constantly drumming for attacks on Iran for the breadths of two two-term administrations, over the span of a decade. Israel sees Iran not as an existential threat, but as a threat to regional control and dominance, and wants the US to beat Iran down (since Israel itself lacks the ability to do so. And even Bush was happy to go "Yeah, we're not doing that, go away." if Israel held the reins, we'd have been in Iran back in 2005.

That said, Israel is a favorite "fig leaf" for our bullshit policies in the Middle East. We were going to do this stuff anyway, but if you tape on an excuse of "doing it for Israel!" a surprising number of Americans will support it