Originally Posted by The_Dunedan

Aah. So Mr. Obama and Mr. Biden have seen fit to dare speak a word against Israel. They're outraged. They're disappointed. They're just all different kinds of pissed off. None of this however, will change the facts;

1: The US will continue to pour "aid" into Israel in amounts that could supplant the GDP of some small European countries. This "aid" will come not only in the form of billions of dollars of giveaways, but also in the form of billions more in "loans" that Congress will happily write off in next year's budget, just as they've been doing since before I was born.

2: Israel will continue to use aforesaid "aid" mostly to prop up it's economy (hard to sell tourism when things keep blowing up) and military, which leads us to....

3: A significant secondary form of "aid," ie All Our Best Toys, will -also- continue unabated. F-22? Probable check. F-35? Definite check. Radars? ELINT equipment? Crypto? Check, check, and check. And what's the second thing Israel usually does with all this Really Cool Shit (right after they use it to blow up two camels, one wellhead, an abandoned car and an apartment block, plus steal identites for Mossad and Shin Bet)? Sell it to China. That's right; one of Israel's biggest customers for Our Best Toys (which we keep giving them) is the single military power which may soon be in a position to challenge the US. Anybody wonder where the Chinese got the guidance systems for their new generation of carrier-killing ballistic and cruise missiles, rocket-propelled torpedoes, and bottom-rising rocket-propelled naval mines? It wasn't from the Russians, the Indians, or the Japanese, I promise you that. None of these facts stopped any of the previous four presidents, and I doubt they'll stop Mr. Obama.

The dogs bark, but the caravan rolls on.