Tuesday, March 3, 2015

This whole Netanyahu thing

Okay, so today Netanyahu is supposed to address the U.S. Congress and tell them what a ding bat he thinks Obama is for trying to negotiate a nuclear arms reduction treaty with Iran.  He's been saying the same thing about Iran for the last 20 years and, of course, to some degree he is correct. Their government is populated a bunch of nuts who hate Israel.  I can't make any claims to know enough about anything to have an intelligent opinion about whether Obama is right or wrong on this issue.  I do think, however, that I am smart enough to know when I am being played like a violin.  Boehner and  Benjamin Netanyahu are engaged in some kind of crazy shenanigans that have more to do with politics than whether or not Obama is doing the right thing regarding Israel and Iran.  It is absolutely inconceivable to me that Boehner would invite a leader from another country to address the Congress of the United States without the involvement of the President of the United States.  He is doing it for purely and nasty political reasons.  If Nancy Pelosi did this when George W. Bush was President, she would have been, rightly, run out of town on a rail.  But, of course, Nancy Pelosi would not in her wildest dreams have taken such an incrediable action.  It is equally inconceivable that a leader of another country would agree to participate in such a dog and pony show.  To collude with the likes of John Boehner says something about Netanyahu, although I'm not sure what.  Maybe when the people in your own country are of varying opinions about what to do about Iran, the best thing to do is to go to another country where you will speak to an audience that mostly agrees with you.  What an unspeakable insult to President Obama, both the invitation and the acceptance.  What an act of disloyalty to this country Boehner has committed.  To circumvent the most basic protocols of political and policy discourse in order to humiliate a President you don't like.  Wow...  Where the hell were you when Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld were invading Iraq based on total lies? That did more to destabilize the Middle East than anything Obama is doing in our policy with Iran.   I can only hope that this comes up later to bite them both in the ass.  They richly deserve it.

Here's a link that makes sense to me:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2015/03/03/390187703/after-netanyahus-speech-a-reality-check?sc=ipad?f=1001

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