McCain Campaigning to Become the Next President of Israel

In a speech today, John McCain was trying to criticize Obama for being naive on the Middle East. What's naive is that John McCain apparently thinks he his running to become the President of Israel as opposed to the United States.

Here is what he said:

"The threats to Israel's security are large and growing, and America's commitment must grow as well," McCain said. "I am committed to making certain Israel maintains its qualitative military edge." "Iran is the principle threat to Israel"

That's great and everything but I want to know is who is the principle threat to the United States, not Israel. This is a speech an Israeli candidate should be making. I think what he means is that our lopsided support of Israel, a rich nation in its own right, is the biggest threat facing the United States.

Currently Israel is the largest recipient of foreign aid and apparently that isn't enough. They are now in the process of trying to extort an additional 600 Million dollars from the United States bringing their aid package up to 3 Billion dollars next year. I guess the weak dollar is taking a toll on Israel as well. To put that into perspective, the impoverished Palestinian territory receives about 75 Million dollars per year and their neighbor Lebanon receives 142 Million in aid.

So, who would you rather vote for, a guy who thinks protecting Israel is more important than protecting America or the guy who wants to persuade Iran to leave Israel alone? McCain can try to ignore and threaten Iran as much as he wants but a lot of good that did Bush. When Bush came into office Iran was not developing Nuclear weapons, it wasn't until after he threatened Iran and N. Korea did both of those countries start up or renew their nuclear programs. Does he really think that Iran is afraid of the U.S. or afraid of an attack by the U.S.? We couldn't invade Iran if we wanted to. Our forces are spread too think and Iran is twice the size of Iraq. If we can't win in Iraq, how can we be expected to win in both Iran and Iraq? Any tough talk or threats made by the Bush, McCain or the U.S. would be laughed at by Iran as they know we simply couldn’t deliver. No one here or in the Security Council will authorize war with Iran after our credibility is in question after crying wolf in Iraq. That's why Obama voted against labeling Iran's Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization; he wasn't going to give the administration ammunition to invade yet another country which had not attacked us. I'm not saying that Ahmadinejad isn't a little cookey, he is, that's why threatening him won't work, he isn't afraid of dying and thinks that when he does it will be God's will and he will get 72 virgins in heaven. In other words, threatening him isn't a way to keep us out of a war or to get him to stop calling Jews names.

But I guess money talks, imagine how much Exxon could make if we went to war with Iran?