From Tom Friedman's NY Times Column "Go Ahead, Ruin My Day"
We’re talking about our choices in
these countries with words that strike me as about 10 years out of date. Alas,
we are not dealing anymore with your grandfather’s Israel, your father’s Iran
or the Iraq your son or daughter went off to liberate.
It is hard to know what is more
depressing: that Netanyahu went for the gutter in the last few days in order to
salvage his campaign — renouncing his own commitment to a two-state solution
with the Palestinians and race-baiting Israeli Jews to get out and vote
because, he said, too many Israeli Arabs were going to the polls — or the
fact that this seemed to work.
In the brutal Middle East, the only
thing that gets anyone’s attention is the threat of regime-toppling force.
Obama has no such leverage on Iran.
Why are we, for the third time
since 9/11, fighting a war on behalf of Iran? In 2002, we destroyed Iran’s main
Sunni foe in Afghanistan (the Taliban regime). In 2003, we destroyed Iran’s
main Sunni foe in the Arab world (Saddam Hussein).
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