Quote: (08-26-2013 07:15 PM)Quintus Curtius Wrote:
This chemical weapons thing is just the latest pretext in a long line of pretexts. The goal is to destroy any country, any government, that does not kowtow to the US and Israel. This has been the goal from the beginning and will remain so. Other regional flunkies like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, etc. do their bidding also. It will never change and it's just too depressing to watch.
The ideal endgame from the US/Israel perspective is to see Syria, Lebanon, and Iran destroyed to that the US can economically dominate the region in perpetuity, and Israel can carry out its goals of "Eretz Israel", Greater Israel. And the people here in the US could care less.
You pay a high, high price for independence. They seek you out, and then they target you.
It's not so much Israel but guilt-ridden pro-Israel American Jews. They think Israel's a great country, and that they are sinning by not living there. So they do 'penance' by taking hawkish positions that they think will help Israel. Actual political opinion in Israel is rather diverse. There's also the hawkish humanitarians, the type who'd have invaded Darfur had there been enough support for it.
Assad's regime is an enemy in name to Israel, but otherwise at a rude peace with them. As with Libya and Egypt, it's by no means clear that toppling the ancien regimes is a help to Israel. And Eretz Yisrael just means the land of Israel.