A DAILY INNOCULATION AGAINST POLITICAL AND CULTURAL BULLSHIT

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"Plus ça change, cher, n'est-ce pas?" - Mémé Aureole Petite


"I'm desperate, Johnny. There's nowhere left to turn."
--- Watching Obama abandon the middle class

"I can't look at his face anymore. I can't listen to him speak. If I saw him in person, I'd throw my shoe."
--- Tweet takes the bold step of expressing his own opinion.

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Mr. Petite has been an adviser to both the Bush and Obama administrations (neither of which ever asked for his advice - and they certainly never took it, so don't blame Tweet) and is a Senior Fellow at (and is supported entirely by) the ETHICS AND THEORY INSTITUTE OF TERMINOLOGY (EATIT), a foundation underwritten by the parents of a United States Senator in return for Mr. Petite's silence on certain important matters. Which explains why he doesn't do TV.

Mr. Petite is a native of virtual New Orleans, and therefore a legal immigrant to his actual residence, so he has never had to do migrant farm work or landscaping. (He did do some shrimping in the virtual bayous on some of the days he played hookey from school.) The use of the word "onions" is metaphoric, or something. His sole contact with actual onions is in some of the better gumbos.

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Tuesday, July 07, 2009

EXCLUSIVE: Israel declines to ask U.S. to OK Iran attack - Washington Times

EXCLUSIVE: Israel declines to ask U.S. to OK Iran attack - Washington Times

It doesn't matter. The US will be held responsible for what Israel does. So if the US does not agree that Iran should be bombed, and is concerned about national security consequences to the US, it had better speak up very clearly to Israel. I'm not at all sure that that will be enough. Probably the US should threaten to cut financial support for Israel, and to stop selling them arms. And actually do so if Israel goes ahead.

I rather doubt even that would stop Israel. I suspect that Israel has sufficiently developed its technology industries that Israel could be self sustaining and could manufacture any military hardware it needs. Or buy it. But the issue is not what happens to Israel. The issue is what happens to the US.

Of course, if you want Iran bombed, and you see no national security consequences to the US - or are willing to accept them - you'll have an entirely different opinion.
Posted by Tweet Petite at 1:33 PM

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