It is hard not to view the State Department's reticence over accepting Israel's offers of assistance to hurricane victims and victims of Arab terror on the one hand, and its enthusiastic playing up of assistance from Arab states on the other...
The most disturbing aspect of this episode is that it shows clearly the enduring power of the darker side of America. There is the great America that stands as a beacon of freedom and democracy for the whole world. This is the America that is willing to send its forces throughout the world to defend America and bring freedom to millions who suffer under the yoke of tyranny
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yes, and we turned the German help away too. made them wait along with the swedish and the swiss. on the other hand the mexicano army is marching on Alamo as we speak.

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A lot of the very strict Christian groups are pointing to our "turning away of Israel" as prophetic. Their pullout from Gaza was in part from pressure we put on the situation, and of course there are those that are saying that God's wrath is being poured out because of it.
There's no doubt that we want to be viewed differently by the Arab states in the region, and not such a total supporter of Israel, but this does seem a little to obvious.
Sometimes when you cater to people their sense is that your just pathetic. It's getting to the point now where our alliance with the Saudi royals is building a wall to the other states in the region.
Nobody in State seems to take the tenants of Islam seriously, but we will never fit in over there, no mater what we do.

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i think you're right (or the article is) to a point. there seems to be a little bit of israel phobia but i don't think that was all the reason. i think, by truning dire help from germans and others at the same time shows either un-preperdness or some kind of egotistical brain fart or some racial motivivation. regrdless it definately shows lack of compassion on the part of the prez and gang.

also, we (the western world) actually went over pretty well in pre invasion Irq. overall.

I am very disgusted how US buddy-buddies to KSA. Overall they are the reason for this "Islamic revolution" due to Wahabism.

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I understand there's a pretty long list of countries that we've refused aid from. Doesn't seem too neighborly or diplomatic. After all the times we've given aid, couldn't we just be humble for a while and gratefully accept the stuff? We could put the Red Cross and Salvation Army in charge of distributing the stuff.

I heard Matt Drudge the other night pooh - poohing the whole thing, saying, "It's hot down there, what do they need blankets for!" I never realized what a douche-bag he is. He was saying the left is dissappointed that the death toll is much lower than initially feared, that now they can't use it as such an issue.

Yeah, it's hot now Matt, but a lot of these folks lost all their blankets, and a lotta folks sleep under at least one blanket.

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