[laconic]

This bizarre, continuing belief in "internationalism" is contradicted by the public facts that have emerged over the past decades: the US is the only reliable friend that Israel and the Jewish people have (with an occasional Brit and Australian). If they relied on Europe and (God help us all!) international organizations such as the UN where Libya chairs the "Human Rights Committee" and Iraq co-chairs the "Nonproliferation Committee", there would not be an Israeli (and probably few Israelis) left.

[dix]

America is indeed the best friend The Jews have, and I have never gotten why the liberal Jewish crowd like Boxer et al have been such disruptors. On the flip side The Jews are a large part of what has made this country great. Their contribution has been huge. The Jews get things done, and nothing could be more American.

[headsonpikes]

I have come to believe that 'internationalism' is a political theory whose first premise is that only states have rights, and whose second premise is that the preservation of states is the point of world politics, not the liberation of mankind from thousands of years of arbitrary rule.

The U.N. is the fortress of the enemies of human beings around the planet.