On Jun 2, 2010, at 9:24 AM, Eric Beck wrote:
> But see your problem is that you fail to see that the United States is
> responsible for all evil (or corruption, or criminality, or fill in
> your favorite moral-outrage word here) in the world; other states
> don't really have their political aspirations and needs, they just
> reflect US prerogatives. Israel was innocent like Little Red Riding
> Hood on its way to join the community of nations before it met the Big
> Bad Wolf and became corrupted.
Not sure whom you're caricaturing here, but Israel would be lucky just to exist within its 1967 borders without U.S. money and weapons. It would never have been able to do what it's been doing to Gaza. Without $7.5 billion transfers - essentially official and private aid from the U.S. - it would be running a giant current account deficit. Instead of having its international assets roughly in balance, it'd be a debtor at the feet of the IMF.
Doug