Israel Misunderstood
As I have mentioned previously. I do look at comments. I do so in order to get an idea of how well my words fit with the beliefs and ideas of Townhall readers. Many readers leave kind comments, some add details that I have missed, and of course, there are nay-sayers. If everyone likes what you write, then you aren’t writing anything that interesting. I don’t mind people disagreeing or bringing facts to counter my arguments. That is the way a free and open society should work. Try bad-mouthing Khameini in the middle of a Tehran street and see how that goes for you. But like all things, there are limits. In one of my recent articles, a recurring nudnik claimed that somehow I was MIGA (Make Israel Great Again) and that pushing an Iran strike was for Israel’s benefit. Israelis realize that should the US attack Iran, we here might be on the receiving end of Iranian retaliation. I know of no country in the world that would accept casualties and destruction for battle of two other states. Israel wanted to go into Iraq in Operation Desert Storm. Israel absorbed 3 dozen SCUDs (missiles) and let George Bush the Daddy keep his coalition by staying out of the fighting.
I thought about the expression MIGA and how totally inappropriate it is for the state of Israel. Everybody is into Make NAME YOUR COUNTRY HERE Great Again, but in this case, it is not relevant. Why did Donald Trump hit pay dirt when he invented the expression Make America Great Again and led a MAGA revolution? The simple reason was that people in their own lifetimes or in that of their immediate predecessors saw successes that we can no longer reproduce. Just for some examples:
This list is not even close to being complete. The short of it is that virtually any........
