This man has single handedly strengthened the hand of almost every real mortal enemy Israel has in the region. Iran will go nuclear on his watch or come damn close, and we can’t do a single thing to actively prevent it. Ditto for N. Korea and their export driven nuke & arms industry, which is intimately tied into the conflicts of the region. Syria & Iran are now making common alliances with the Shiite government & their numerous deadly private death squads & militias in Iraq. If Bush was running Hamas he could not be doing more damage to the long term interests of Jews and to & for the long term strategic interests of Israel. Allies actively alienated, attacked & defeated in endless wars with no adequate planning, and no real strategy for ‘victory’ or even ‘stasis’. A half baked ‘strategic vision’ for the region that relies on strongly on fantasy, a lack of real will & manpower to carry it out. A deep perception by our enemies & allies alike of a ‘bluff & blunder’ regime of warcraft & statecraft that would be familiar to only Kaiser Bill and certain incompetent French Generals of WW1. (And here, we’re being unfair to the French probably).

We might as well hermetically seal off the state of Israel from the rest of the world forevermore if this actually comes to pass. No one will ever take them seriously about much of anything afterwards! Cheers, ‘VJ’