"In countless ways, our foreign policy has long and directly violated George Washington's 1796 warning that "nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded"; that "the nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave"; and that "a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils." The typical justification for violating those warnings is that our interests are served by maintaining and steadfastly supporting permanent alliances of this sort." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

"Muslim anger towards Israel will inevitably translate into Muslim anger towards the U.S. for as long as we continue to flood Israel with aid and cover." This is superficially true, but if you expect Muslim anger to *abate* if the US stopped giving Israel aid and cover, you're delusional. Muslim anger toward the US and Israel is an extremely convenient tool to keep the 'arab street' from focusing on the deficiencies of their own despotic and kleptocratic leadership. - Michael R. Bernstein