Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "The Rubin Report"
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Carving out nations by force in far-distant lands is not a "liberal" notion or the highest ideal of Western Civ. It's Old-World imperialism/colonialism. The state of Israel is an artificiality imposed by force on the people of Palestine. I don't care how great the Jews are or how "liberal" the state of Israel is made out to be. It's not sustainable without enormous external support against the will of every nation in the region.
Israel is the poster child for 'sunk-cost fallacy.' If we feel so strongly about a Jewish homeland, why don't we give up an equivalent amount of real estate for such a homeland here in America? Give 'em a chunk of Arizona or Nevada desert. With their know-how and work ethic and modern permaculture tech, they'd turn it into an oasis in one generation.
No. This is about (in essence) British imperialism, grafted effortlessly onto American foreign policy at the end of the failing British Empire. It's not their or our place to re-draw the map to please them or us.
When I look at the Muslim world, I see a lust to expand, but I also see centuries of invasion, for instance the Mongol invasion, that decimated and weaponized Islam. Brought out the worst potentialities. We picked up where the Mongols and then the British left off, and we wonder why they hate us and why they behave like Guerrillas in the Peninsular war against Napoleon. We call it "terror," when suicide bombers lash out, but call our conventional use of arms in a hopelessly lopsided war as "righteous."
WE shaped and promoted radical Islam, whenever we wanted to take out an existing government in the region, by arming ethnic minorities to fight as rebels against governments we didn't like. Mujahedeen in Afghanistan? We prepped and equipped them. Over and over, we fight agains the violence and spite that WE CREATED! And we blame the people we trained and propagandized into the most regressive and dangerous interpretation of Muslim belief for being violent and regressive.
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I taught at a college up in the mountains. I loved the regular people from the area. I mentioned this to a colleague who sniffed and said "I don't like being around those people." A paragon of liberalism, just like 90% of my colleagues, but they did NOT want to venture outside their bubble. I preferred the local ranchers, farmers, and outfitters. They were REAL. My colleagues were very judgemental, in a very twisted "Toe the liberal line or be ostracized" way that struck me as more conservative than liberal. Very regressive, hidebound people, without an original thought in their heads. Just deadly, dull conformity. And what made it worse, was they insisted they were the tolerant, open-minded ones, when they were anything but. Very stifling atmosphere.
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