Re: A Third Option
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America really got it wrong the first time when they picked Israel over the arabs. Such a bad decision. They would be so much better off if they supported the arabs and made the offical isral state somewhere in mexico or something.
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Not when you consider that ultimately the philosophy of Judaism is far more congruent with Western values and philosophy than is Islam. This difference spills over into politics as well, the more so because Islam as a religion cannot truly be divorced from politics, as political earthly dominance is an inherent goal of Islam, which preferential dominance is well-encoded in Islamic Shari'a Law.
Thus by siding with Israel over the Arabs, America has sided with those who are most like us in values and thinking. Any alliance with Islam must eventually be sundered due to the irreconcilable differences in philosophy between Islamic thought and Western liberal enlightenment thinking and values.
Materially speaking, siding with Israel instead of the Arabs is indeed a costly and short-term losing proposition, but in the long-term it is bound to be more fruitful, if indeed sides must be chosen at all. It is sort of like the difference between marrying a poor woman with whom you share most values and thinking, or marrying a rich woman with whom you do not share values and philosophy. The shallow person marries for money (as for oil) whereas the longer-term thinker with a more spiritual leaning marries for love and for shared values.
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