[Boreas]

... but this really takes the cake!

Mike Pence is a Wing Nut Congressman from Indiana. He had this to say in an interview on the Christian Broadcasting Network:

"I have grown increasingly troubled at the mixed signals that this administration is sending to the various parties in the [Middle East] region. It feels for all the world that we are sliding back to the era of the Clinton administration where it was the ambition of the United States to be an honest broker in the region. I take issue with that.

"I think President George W. Bush got it right. The United States certainly wants to be honest, but we don’t want to be a broker. A broker doesn’t take sides. A broker negotiates between parties of equals… America’s on the side of Israel. And to send any other message than our unwavering support, that we will stand with what the sovereign government and the people of Israel decide is in their interest, I think represents a departure from where the heart of the American people are at."

So, we just sit back and cheer (and pay) from the sidelines while Israel does anything it bloody well wants?

There's an important subtext here. American Jews are overwhelmingly and staunchly Democrats. All this ass kissing of Israel by the Republicans isn't aimed at them. It's aimed at the fringe on the fringe of the Christian Right. These religious fanatics actually want to see Israel indulge it's taste for nihilism because they believe it'll bring on The End of Days (when, by the way, the Jews will be given the choice of conversion or death). Peace in the Middle East and a stable Palestinian state are abhorrent to them.

John