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View Poll Results: Should the US engineer a coup d'etat in Israel like we did in Chile, Vietnam, Guatemala, etc.?
Yes 4 10.00%
No 35 87.50%
Not sure 0 0%
The US engineered coups in those countries? 1 2.50%
Voters: 40. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 04-19-2016, 01:37 PM
 
Location: Londonderry, NH
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Our overseas investors like Israel should learn how to take care of themselves.
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Old 04-19-2016, 11:55 PM
 
Location: Earth
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Wish we'd cut off all foreign aid. All it does is take money away from poor people here and gives it to the rich people over there.
Exactly.
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Old 04-20-2016, 09:46 AM
 
Location: Old Mother Idaho
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in English please ? Israel is going to launch nukes against whom ?

very few nukes are capable of delivering payloads today.
Russia has them. It is highly unlikely any Israeli nukes
can deliver payload. This is 2016, not 1968.
Or 1948, 1954, or 1960 either. We used to like to tinker with other governments, and every time we did, it came back a bit us in the ass hard. As often as not, the other nation finally settled down as it would, while we still continue to treat the infection from those ancient bites.

All we are good at when it comes to a coup is getting a lot of people killed.
Ours and theirs, and sometimes lots of others on the sideline who had nothing to do with the matters at hand.

But we always do leave a lot of perfectly good military equipment behind so whatever we start will drag on for years. We're good at that, too.
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Old 04-20-2016, 10:35 AM
 
Location: The Ranch in Olam Haba
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I'd actually be OK with that if we cut off all of our aid to Israel.

If we're no longer cleaning up after them and they have to take care of their own mess without a penny of money from the US taxpayer they will have to behave much more responsibly.

However - as long as they take our money they have to play by our rules. Which Bibi is incapable of. He's like an agitated ape.
You mean cut off the US taxpayer from giving the US taxpayer 75% of that money since it's required to be sent back to the US every year to purchase US goods.
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Old 04-20-2016, 11:04 AM
 
Location: Silicon Valley, CA
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You mean cut off the US taxpayer from giving the US taxpayer 75% of that money since it's required to be sent back to the US every year to purchase US goods.
How about letting the US taxpayer keep 100% of that money by not disbursing foreign aid in the first place, which often causes a lot of problems in the process?
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Old 04-20-2016, 11:16 AM
 
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Acceptable to whom?
To the American People, and the developed world. Political realities changed. The Cold War is history.
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Old 04-20-2016, 11:21 AM
 
Location: Florida
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Should the US engineer a coup d'etat in Israel like we did in Chile, Vietnam, Guatemala, etc.?
Eeeehhh.......why?
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Old 04-20-2016, 11:24 AM
 
Location: Earth
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How about letting the US taxpayer keep 100% of that money by not disbursing foreign aid in the first place, which often causes a lot of problems in the process?
Exactly. That money should stay in the US and not go through the middle man.
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Old 04-20-2016, 11:26 AM
 
Location: Earth
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Eeeehhh.......why?
Our money, our rules, our conditions. If Bibi doesn't like it he should turn down that money. Which he won't as the ungrateful parasite he is.
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Old 04-20-2016, 11:28 AM
 
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You mean cut off the US taxpayer from giving the US taxpayer 75% of that money since it's required to be sent back to the US every year to purchase US goods.
You've gotta admit...it's a pretty stupid arrangement.

The Israelis would be better off without the aid. It's not worth the criticism, and they could raise 3-4 billion dollars annually in a New York minute. The aid is a hindrance.
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