Richardson, not Kucinich/Paul http://blogs.jta.org/ENTRY_PERMALINK_HERE/richardson-not-kucinich-paul/ Knowing the difference between the two. en-us aeden@jta.org Copyright 2009 2009-09-24T;18:41:00-05:00 Comment by David david.ehrens@gmail.com Eden, who defends APN and JStreet in a previous post, in this one seems to be lumping people like Kucinich and Paul who believe that it’s time for the US to get out of the “empire business” or have a more America-centric, even-handed approach to Israel-Palestine in with classical isolationists. Both of these guys are being quite consistent in calling for more talk, less saber-ratting, even with Iran. And now comes along Bill Richardson saying the same thing PLUS correctly pointing out that solving the Israel-Palestine issue will not help Iran solve the Afghanistan problem. Imagine the US and Iran reaching some kind of “I’d like to kill you but we have to agree on neutralizing the Taliban” agreement. This is NOT isolationism; it’s the kind of pragmatism that would have our Zionist friends reaching for their bottles of Pepcid and cursing America’s betrayal of a Middle East policy whose microscope is focused at 10,000X only on Israel. Eden, who defends APN and JStreet in a previous post, in this one seems to be lumping people like Kucinich and Paul who believe that it’s time for the US to get out of the “empire business” or have a more America-centric, even-handed approach to Israel-Palestine in with classical isolationists. Both of these guys are being quite consistent in calling for more talk, less saber-ratting, even with Iran. And now comes along Bill Richardson saying the same thing PLUS correctly pointing out that solving the Israel-Palestine issue will not help Iran solve the Afghanistan problem. Imagine the US and Iran reaching some kind of “I’d like to kill you but we have to agree on neutralizing the Taliban” agreement. This is NOT isolationism; it’s the kind of pragmatism that would have our Zionist friends reaching for their bottles of Pepcid and cursing America’s betrayal of a Middle East policy whose microscope is focused at 10,000X only on Israel.

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