An open letter to Conservatives on the Middle East Peace Process

[dave123williams]

To my Conservative friends on the Middle East Peace Process:

Try not to look too powerless, frustrated and desperate. It's kind of unbecoming.

To be clear; we tried it your way; that way failed utterly. It was not a path to peace, and you know it. At best, it maintained an awful status quo, and at worst Bush was making secret deals with Netenyahu that hung his own Secretary of State completely out to dry. I'm sure you haven't seen any mention of this:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/netanyahu-cites-secret-deal-with-bush-to-justify-more-settlements-1695486.html

On FoxNews or in the New York Post. Maybe you should read it.

It says that the United States was double-dealing in the roadmap peace process, that we would publicly give credit to Israel for honoring its commitments, while secretly telling them they could break their word to their counterparts with complete impunity and zero repercussions.

Netanyahu has, in fact, been waving that 'secret deal' around for the last two days...

It was a deal designed to keep the region in a state of conflict, while publically allowing the US administration to claim to be peacemakers, when they were anything but that.

The deal is a lie at its core, and...we should probably be used to hearing that Bush/Cheney actually deliberately operated at the expense of the credibility of the United States as an honest broker in order to achieve something as crass as their nut-job domestic political agenda. You know, like helping their buddies rip off our Treasury for a trillion bucks...

Further, the race-baiting complaint about Obama's father's Muslim heritage that you tried to run on in this last election, without a whit of success, is now one of America's strongest foreign-policy assets.

Arab leadership was gobsmacked by that speech, it is officially the new foreign policy of the United States, it is a giant diplomatic opportunity (kind of like the one you people blew utterly after 9/11), so get on board or...you know, make a trip to Israel...

Why don't you actually build a settlement in Hebron, if you really feel that strongly about the whole thing?

Oh, right; Conservatives in the United States just pay angry lip-service to their 'beliefs', so long as it furthers an actual agenda which rarely has anything to do with beliefs, values, or morality.

It's usually just about the money, isn't it. Or the power.

That playbook of yours really, seriously needs a re-write.

Here's why: nobody, except the irretrievably stupid, believes anything you say.

So, here's a quarter; go downtown and buy yourself a clue. Your theories of governance, constant fear-mongering for political gain and ingrained demagoguery as an official tactic are no longer required, thanks.

You lost. Get over it.

And no, nobody's trying to shut you up...as a matter of fact, as a Progressive, I'm quite keen to have the rabid element of Conservatism show it's truly ugly face. We just got a little taste of it with the murder of that doctor in KC, didn't we.

We get another taste of it when partisan political attacks are leveled at the President of the United States when he's beyond the water's edge, where politics has traditionally ended in this nation.

That is, of course, until you people slithered down Wisconsin Avenue to 16th and K street. Or 'J' street, in this case.

Such is the quality of your fair-weather Patriotism.

Such is your support for our President in a time of war.

I'd personally encourage you to keeeeeep talkin'. Keep sending those paranoid emails around, keep acting like your philosophy is not completely discredited, keep thinking 'pure' conservatism is your road back to power....because that is the seed of your complete undoing.

Don't say I didn't warn you.

You think we can't have peace in the Middle East?

Yes. We. Can.

I guess what I'm suggesting is, if peace is really America's goal then you should lead, follow, or get out of the way.

[sailor65]

1. What is it with these idiots

that are utterly incapable of differentiating Conservative from Republican?

Or understanding that a whole lot of Democratic voters are (Actually) Conservative and that we finally won largely because of that?

[dave123williams]

2. Right. Let's credit CONSERVATISM with Obama's win...

Are you stupid, or something? The only 'conservatives' that voted for Obama were the ones that were sick of having their good names associated with the GOP.

Progressives won this election, duh.