By development I assume you mean settlements. They shouldn't be; they only antagonize the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Even George Bush 1 called for Israel to stop its construction of settlements.
You also have to understand that the ideologies of Jews in America and Israel are quite different. In the U.S., many are quite progressive (my own synagog has criticized some of Israel's policies towards the Palestinians), wheras the Israelis as a whole seem to become more hawkish.
It's also very naive to think the United States has the moral high ground. Do not get me wrong, I love my country, there is no place I would rather be, but America is just like any other country in the sense that it can do both bad and good. While we have installed democracies in Japan and Germany, and inspired other countries to follow our example, like I said we have overthrown democratic governments in the past simply because they didn't do things our way. For example, Iran briefly had a democracy, but when the prime minister nationalized their oil wells, the U.S. and Britain overthrew him and replaced their government with an autocracy favoring us, which in turn was overthrown by the people and replaced with the theocracy we're dealing with now. We also overthrew a truly democratic Guatemala and replaced it with an elite who plunged their country into chaos. So, truthfully, we've only behaved in a manner that suited our interests. But so have many other countries that were once super-powers.
The thing I find annoying about the "too apologetic" argument is what I've highlighted above. Those that use this believe Obama is showing weakness, but it is people who refuse to apologize that are the real ones who are scared and who are afraid. Apologies alone can do so much to fix a situation.
Of course i can understand that, the US had made some mistakes in the past. But listen i was born in Venezuela, and if there is something that i learned, is that even if the US had made some previous mistakes, that doesn't mean it should be condemn for life. All Hugo Chavez does is blame the United States, all the leaders of Iran do is blame the West for their problems, i guess that shift to the right wing libertarian i had to go through was mostly because i know how Socialism can transform a friendly nation into a hostile one. Plus we have been trying to talk with Iran for more than 30 years, ever since the Carter administration, but Iran always turn it down. Here is a comic strip i find quite funny in the matter of US-Iranian relations.
There is also another thing troubling me about Obama admin, what is with all those Czars, i mean even calling them Czars kinda scares the crap out of me. Now i know, Bush had many Czars as well, but why call them Czars, why not call them his kitchen cabinet, people who he likes to talk politics with, or have a beer with, the word Czars looks and sounds to me like political suicide.
And about the US overthrowing this guys, well that is true, the US have overthrown truly democratic governments. But for me i find that troublesome, because this nations start out with a democracy, and in ten years, it becomes a dictatorship. And is not the people of the United States that do these kind of things, its the CIA, or the AICU, but you own those troubles to progressives, as the Monroe Doctrine was signed under a progressive president, the entrance to the 1st World war was done by a progressive president, Woodrow Wilson, the entrance into the 2nd World war was done by another progressive president FDR, and the 2 Atom bombs were dropped under FDR VP.
I don't mean to be mean or anything, is just that from experience i am careful with politicians who have a silver tongue, that's all.
Edited by Strangelove, 09 October 2009 - 02:29 AM.
