Israel overreacting?

As I watch the news about Israel and Lebanon I wonder who is really to blame for the conflict. We all know that Iran is supporting terrorism against Israel, and that Syria and Iran are allied in this effort. But is Israel really overreacting, or is there something more to this? I would speculate that Israel recognizes America's weakened position, and feeling the effects of our poor ability to maintain an effective State Department, they are going out and acting on their own. We haven't seen this kind of action by Israel since the Six Days War.

I am not trying to knock Condi Rice, I know she is capable and is trying to change the State Department - it’s a worthy task but can’t be done by only the Secretary of State. The problem is that we have a complete idiot for president. He has no creativity, or foresight. Yet it’s not just his fault, previous presidents have been inept at evaluating government bureaucracy and streamlining it to perform like a well oiled machine. The most obvious example of this failure by our presidents is the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. It seems that every time a president doesn’t understand the bureaucracy he creates another arm of it that makes sense to him. I have a suspicion that the National Security Agency was created to do the job a president wanted, but now we live with it, and a host of other intelligence agencies, all not cooperating and sharing information so that we have events like September 11^th.

Poor Israel is caught in our own nation’s demise. With us, so too goes the Jewish State. I don’t blame them for bombing the hell out of those terrorist groups. Do you think for one second that if the Ku Klux Klan was as well armed as Hezbollah and occupying the southern states along the Mexican border that Mexico would not one day attack American cities in the southwest in order to protect themselves from the racists to their north? Israel does have a right to defend itself, yes, but President Bush does not have the right to use that statement as a crutch for his failure to do something with our foreign policy bureaucracy. Just because you have the oil and defense industries in your pockets does not mean that you can blindly ignore the international community and destroy the career of one of America’s celebrated commanders. Colin Powell was sacrificed on the alter of presidential ego, but at the same time, we are now beginning to see that Bush has been sending our diplomatic abilities and tradition to the slaughter houses ever since he got into office. Idiots like him believe that America’s military and economic strength are unchallengeable, but yet look what happened. You ignore our diplomatic strength, our tradition of being rational people who think first and shoot later, and the whole world goes kaput and now our military and economic strength are nothing to speak of. Iran and North Korea know it and are running all over us like a tennis court.

After I run for Congress I am going to run for President as soon as I turn 35 years old – if we still have a United States by then!