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In reply to the discussion: I Support The Actions Described By President Obama Tonight, Ladies And Gentlemen [View all]The Magistrate
(95,247 posts)You want U.S. policy regarding Israel v. Palestine to change and view every event in the Near East as an opportunity to try and convince people it should. For some reason, though, you got kittenish, and would not say so directly, and instead tried to argue on the plane of abstract moral philosophy, setting up something you thought was sure to put an opponent in a position where he would have no choice but to agree, when you brought it back to real world cases, with your view that the U.S. government must move to curb Israel and aid Arab Palestine. But your abstract problem does not solve in your favor, and so the thing squibbed off and left you high and dry. Now you are reduced to trying to argue policy, like an ordinary mortal, without much room for appeal to emotion, and put bluntly, I do not much care what your views on Near East policy are, and care even less what your views of the rights and wrongs of Israel v. Palestine might be, and if you put two caraway seeds and a banker's heart in the navel of a flea, there would still be room for how much I care whether the leader or government of a world power looks hypocritical or not, to you or anyone else.
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