I was going to write this: You seem like a very nice chap, and your heart is in the right place, but you are far too sensitive.

However, I then googled you and found out that you are a Buddhist*. My answer therefore is as follows: I am sorry that I have hurt your feelings.

*”My ethnic background is Jewish (Jewish-Ukrainian-Polish).

The existential view that I hold, and the existential practice that I strive to follow, is Theravada Buddhism.”

http://tinyurl.com/yaloy5d

I hope that my previous writing has not been harmful, and I hope that my writing this comment is not harmful.

I feel the same way that you do. I am very distressed.

Those who are more capable than I am must now speak the truth, and must do so in the way that will have the most beneficial results.

I feel the way that you do.

I was trying to write something that would be beneficial.

What I am saying now is that the truth about the situation must, for the first time, be clearly and forcefully and effectively told.

Russia’s refusal to join in the sanctions (which seems to be somewhat moderated now) was explained and excused by the fact that they have extensive economic ties to Iran (I rather thought the point of sanctions was to sever those ties to bring Iran to heel, but no matter) and this was seen as a snub to the US and Hillary.

I repeat – this was seen as a snub to the US and Hillary.

So one of those commenting on the program came up with the following wonderful insight about Russia, since everything that happens in the world is connected to the Jews:

“Well, of course, we expect Russia to snub us. But for Israel to snub the US is absolutely outrageous!!”

In terms of Obama and his betrayal of the United States and staunch allies of that nation like brave Poland and plucky little Israel, I certainly think these words of Scott’s are most appropriately applied to this terrible man, the worst and most egotistical president in America’s history:

Breathes there the man with soul so dead
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!
Whose heart hath ne’er within him burn’d
As home his footsteps he hath turn’d
From wandering on a foreign strand?
If such there breathe, go, mark him well!
For him no minstrel raptures swell;
High though his titles, proud his name,
Boundless his wealth as wish can claim,—
Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonour’d, and unsung.

– Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto vi. Stanza 1.

Obama’s war on Israel by Caroline Glick

“Obama has made clear that he is not Israel’s ally. And for the remainder of his term, he will do everything he can to downgrade US relations with Israel while maintaining his constant genuflection to the likes of Iran, Syria, the Palestinians and Turkey.”

http://tinyurl.com/ygqqhxl

“I think that Obama is a decent and intelligent person.”

A decent person wouldn’t have spent over twenty years listening to the anti-Semitic ravings of Jeremiah Wright at the Trinity United Church of Christ on Chicago’s south side. A decent person wouldn’t have chosen Wright as his guide and mentor. And I don’t see what “intelligent” has to do with anything very much. After all, many of the most evil people who have ever lived have been exceedingly intelligent. Given a straight choice, I’d take good and dumb over evil and smart any day of the week.