Unrealistic Foreign Policy "Realists"

[jordan179]

From Caroline Glick, "The 'realist" fantasy," in the Jerusalem Post (http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1230111707087&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull)

First the delicious news that Hamas has brought back

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[mosinging1986]

When they don't like a Palestinian, they string him up on a lamppost and slit open his belly so that his entrails dangle to the street.

Ugh. Such lovely people, aren't they?
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as if any amount of arguing and censoring could change the reality of what is within the Islamists' minds!

We see this day in and day out, and from all sides.
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When you "respect" someone, you take what he says seriously -- including when he says that he hates you.

Exactly. This is so simple and straightforward that I cannot comprehend why NO ONE seems to get it. (Especially when those in question are not just talking, but proving by their continued actions that they mean EXACTLY what they say!)

I can somewhat understand it from the regular person on the street. When you are not directly affected it's easy to make up comforting fantasies about what you wish, rather than what is.

But politicians and world leaders do it to. And they know and see what is happening, sometimes firsthand. That's the part that makes me want to scream.

doublepluswarmfeelies all around

[mosinging1986]

Have Faith Faith Faith in The One and sing along with The Children, The Children, The Children:

"OBAMA Loves Us,
OBAMA Will Save Us..."

Re: doublepluswarmfeelies all around

[mosinging1986]

:::runs screaming into the night:::

Expectations of "Following the Script"

[jordan179]

When they don't like a Palestinian, they string him up on a lamppost and slit open his belly so that his entrails dangle to the street.

Ugh. Such lovely people, aren't they?

Indeed. And this behavior originated AFAIK with Fatah, the least extreme of the Palestinian factions, back in the 1990's. This should tell you just how foolish are the hopes of people who expect the Palestinians to become reasonable based on humanitarian arguments.

When you "respect" someone, you take what he says seriously -- including when he says that he hates you.

Exactly. This is so simple and straightforward that I cannot comprehend why NO ONE seems to get it.

The conclusion I've come to is that the Left really doesn't respect the Palestinians, or Muslims, or Third Worlders in general. Insead, a show of "respect," accompanied by the most perfect lack of respect, is engaged in by the Western Left.

What's going on is that the Third World has been drafted, in the minds of the Left, to play a particular role in their "script" of reality (*). That role

How the Carter Got Its Naivete

[jordan179]

But politicians and world leaders do it to. And they know and see what is happening, sometimes firsthand. That's the part that makes me want to scream.

It's very easy for "politicians and world leaders" to avoid seeing the true nature of the tyrants with whom they deal. The "politicians and world leaders" are VIP's who (whether they acknowledge its importance or not) speak and act with the backing of powerful Western militaries, whom the tyrants fear even when they despise the individual Leftists themselves.

Hence they need not confront the nature of the beasts. Jimmy Carter is not likely to be strung up and gutted by Mahmoud Abbas if Carter says something of which Abbbas disapproves; not becuase Abbas respects Carter (he probably despises Carter), but because Abbas knows that the sequel to this action would be America declaring an open hunting season on Fatah.

A dictatorship is a very different thing from the POV of a powerful outsider, compared to someone living at its mercy.