Quote Originally Posted by roberth View Post
The United States needs to pick a side, warts and all, and support that side exclusively. I'd prefer that choice be Israel for a number of reasons, mostly that little freedom thing.
Freedom for who?

Pick a side based on whose interests? If we're talking about ours (and ours are the ones I care about) then the US has well over a quarter of a million of it's citizens deployed to countries in the muslim world. A significant percentage or our oil comes from arab countries. What does Israel bring to the table for us?

Again though, things just aren't as simple as "pick a side and support it exclusively". The United States has vested national interest in promoting peace in the middle east. The only real way that's going to happen is a two state solution. So pick a side just isn't going to cut it.