Gwynne Dyer: America Benefits Little From Its Alliance With Israel

[Purveyor]

Article Last Updated: 04/24/2008 06:18:24 PM MDT

You have to admire the macho instincts of Hillary Clinton. Asked on the day of the Pennsylvania primary what she would do if Iran made a nuclear attack on Israel, she replied: "If I'm the president, we will attack Iran . . . we would be able to totally obliterate them." And it's perfectly true. The United States has enough nuclear weapons to obliterate all 75 million people in Iran many times over. All she has to do is press the button.

First she has to win the presidential election, of course, but American voters can rest easy in the knowledge that Mrs. Clinton would not hesitate to kill tens of millions of people on behalf of Israel. What a contrast with wimpy Barack Obama, who said: "Using words like 'obliterate' - it doesn't actually produce good results." What does he use for a backbone?

Tedious purists will point out that Iran doesn't actually have any nuclear weapons. Indeed, late last year the U.S. intelligence agencies produced a joint National Intelligence Estimate stating that Iran has not even been working to develop nuclear weapons for the past four years.

The critics and the carpers might also point out that Israel has hundreds of nuclear weapons and is perfectly capable of obliterating Iran without American help. But practical politicians like Clinton know that there is always some political mileage to be gained by promising to help Israel, whether it needs help or not.

On the very same day, by coincidence, another American was revealed to be helping Israel. His name is Ben-Ami Kadish, and he appeared in a New York courtroom charged with spying on the United States for Israel.

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http://www.sltrib.com:80/opinion/ci_9044162

[Hardrada]

1. The MSM needs to tell the truth about this.

ASAP.

[Demeter]

2. Don't Hold Your Breath.

[Patchuli]

3. Israel

has caused U.S. to do some pretty stupid things. I think the right-wingers think they will curry favor with God if we uphold Israel no matter what evil they want to do. Israel is nothing but blood-thirsty, war-mongering and hateful in my opinion and we need to distance ourselves. We have brought enough of their trouble on ourselves in the past. The fact that Israel has spies on us should convince the fools in power that we need to look out for Number One and that would be U.S.!