At 21:43 09/01/2009, [email protected] wrote: >Do you have your dates straight, John? You are talking about the >Nixon administration from 1968 on, but I am talking about the >Eisenhower administration in the 1950s.
Hmm, sort of. Actually, I'm responding to the section of your post I quoted: > >And that is why the US is so closely allied with Israel on the > Hamas problem, > >Minoru. It reflects a common interest in fighting the joint enemy > of the day. And I'm merely pointing out that a) US-Israeli common interests have been intertwined for decades, and b) Israel has constituted the same sort of chimeric bulwark against anti-US interests in the Middle East that Japan has constituted in the far East, and for roughly the same 60 years. john g --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Persons posting messages to not_honyaku assume all responsibility for their messages. The list owner does not review messages, and accepts no responsibility for the content of messages posted. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
