Foreign policy is for n00bs, Real Americans follow Israel

That's right, our wonderful GOP has come up with a brilliant idea! Why study the Middle East, and try and come up with complicated answers to the most vexing issues affecting the region? Why waste all that tax payer money, when a free market solution is right at our fingertips? All our independent foreign policy does is to complicate matters that are already quite complex.  Enough waste, they say, enough of trying to fit a round peg through a square hole, or is it a square peg, through a round hole? (ok, we don' quite remember, but you get the point).

In typical republican fashion, and in line with their free market ideology, the GOP have figured out that we can save millions simply by following and supporting Israeli policy(1) in the region. BOOM! A lot less confusion now.

But why stop there? Can you imagine how much we would save, if the US and the Israeli leader where one and the same? Well, someone has at least thought about it.

“It is remarkable,” said William Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard, a conservative magazine and one of the leading voices promoting Israel’s cause in the United States. Mr. Netanyahu, who goes by the nickname Bibi, has become a rallying point for Republicans, he said. “Bibi would probably win the Republican nomination if it were legal,” he said.

Bibi for President, 2016! You heard it here first, er, second...ok, maybe 4th or 5th, but definitely in the top 100,000 (give or take a couple of million).

1 Since 1985, it has provided nearly $3 billion in grants annually to Israel, with Israel being the largest annual recipient of American aid from 1976 to 2004 and the largest cumulative recipient of aid ($121 billion, not inflation-adjusted) since World War II. - So, we kinda already paid for it, might as well cash in those chips, right?

Hello again...

So, I've been away from blogging for a long time now. I can't say it was because I didn't have anything to say, on the contrary, I just didn't have time to say it. Life has changed, and my time constraints with it. That said, I want to give blog writing one more go. This time, I plan to add a little more humor to my posts. This is the reason I created this new blog, as opposed to continuing with my old one. In that one, I focused on international relations and our place in the world. I'm not exactly sure where this is going, but I do know it will take a much lighter tone than my last one. We'll see how it turns out.