Replies to post #298805 on Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[follylama]

"Democratically elected government in the Middle east"

There's truth in that statement, spin too. The statement is used to spin a very favorable policy toward Israeli interest, and a very favorable aid policy. The statement still doesn't explain why everything in Israel's best interest is assumed to be in our best interest... There is an overwhelming lack of objectivity in our policy toward Israel, and that could never be in our best interest...

[seabass]

>>>Our policies are based upon it being the only Democratically elected government in the Middle east<<<


You mean...."based upon it being the only Democratically elected government in the Middle east that america likes"...?


November 2006:

The White House said it is "increasingly concerned by mounting evidence that the Syrian and Iranian governments, [Hezbollah] and their Lebanese allies are preparing plans to topple Lebanon's democratically elected government."

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/01/us.lebanon/index.html


Four months or so earlier:

"In this week's issue of the New Yorker, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reports Israeli officials visited the White House earlier this summer to get a "green light" for an attack on Lebanon. The Bush administration approved, Hersh says, in part to remove Hezbollah as a deterrent to a potential US bombing of Iran. A government consultant said the Bush administration also saw the attack on Lebanon as a "demo" for what it could expect to face in Iran."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14540.htm





A man surveyed the damage in southern Beirut after a wave of Israeli airstrikes.


I guess some middle east democracies are protected differently than others....? Just different methods and tactics.