Israel-Palestine

They tried bombing the shit out of Lebanon in 2006 and ended up making Hezbollah look like heroes to the Muslim world and gaining huge amounts of power in Lebanon. Now they’re bombing Gaza again, because cutting off resources wasn’t killing enough people, to try to bring down Hamas. 60 years of non-stop fighting, they still think fighting is the way towards peace. And time and again when they destroy their supposed enemies of the day, all they do is leave behind bigger and  more dangerous ones for tomorrow. It’s an illegal use of force, it’s just plain stupid policy and basically guarantees that there will be no peace anytime soon.

Obama is lucky he still doesn’t have to announce his position yet because of a constitutional technicality, but the situation he’s going to have to address isn’t going to change regardless of what happens. Either Israel can bomb its neighbors without legitimate need and without external consequences for its actions or they can’t. And any chance and hope the world had for Obama is riding on his response to this. Either he’s going to have a common sense foreign policy or he’s been scared shitless by the dumbasses at the Pentagon and CIA who thought invading Iraq was a great idea, who convinced him to re-hire them and who still think aggressive militarism is a good idea. We’ll see in less than a month.