Yes, that would be a good start! Hey, regardless of how much you like Clinton, which is likely to be at best 'not much', you'd have to admit that Robert Rubin did a pretty good job. Rubin is, you know, um.... And that Greenspan guy, who most people think has done a pretty good job, he's also, um, right...
OK, you can also find Jews who didn't do such a good job as well.
The bottom line is, let's put America first!
Absolutely. The question is, what serves America's interest best? Tell me, as much as the Arabs absolutely hate Israel, do you think they don't notice that in an area wihtout any oil at all they have one of the highest GDPs? Do you think that Israel's existence doesn't at all influence the other countries to move away from totalitarian dictatorship, and toward a more free, more stable and more prosperous life? Sure, they can quickly retort that Israel gets a ton of U.S. military aid, but let's face it, Egypt gets tons of aid as well and hasn't benefited economically.
You have the Jordanians aggressively moving toward a Western-style government, and even regimes like Syria and Saudi Arabia considering various reforms.
So yes, put America first. And that means, having a Middle Eastern policy roughly what it is today's.
I guess I'm just an isolationist at heart, close the borders, cut off all foreign aid, and expel all the illegals... I do resent it when people put their loyalty somewhere other than in America.