Shane, I think the alliance you propose has been a long time coming and I believe many strategic thinkers have known so for a good while. I was speaking with a fellow ex-Screaming Eagle yesterday at the supermarket, a retired NCO, now a state cop, who spent a great deal of time in Saudi and the Persian Gulf area as an advisor. He as much said the same thing as you have here: we and the Israelis are going to have to take down Iran. Syria won't really matter once Iran is neutered.

I might even take your alliance one step further. Think about this: Israel is closer to our East Coast than Guam is to our West. We have maintained Guam as a protectorate for more than a hundred years and that status has afforded us a strategic platform to project power into the Western Pacific for decades. Some of my more astute military friends tell me that Guam is now in the process of being ginned up by DoD to become a larger scale Diego Garcia, a formidable American military presence in the Pacific.

Now, if the greatest threat to western civilization is currently incubating in the Middle East, particularly along an axis between Iran and Syria, what better place to have a strategic force projection platform like Guam or DG than an already heavily militarized territory with ports readily accessible to our logistics train on a sea which we own? Hey, if this sounds farfetched, don't you think an American protectorate in Guam or a State of Hawaii might have sounded equally so back in the formative years of our country?

Think about this; don't you think many Israelis would be willing to give up their sovereignty to become a protectorate of the world's one sure democracy? Wouldn't millions of Israelis sleep better at night knowing that they were guaranteed protection from the hostile regimes surrounding them because their little democracy was now a part of the world's greatest democracy and they would no longer have to wonder whether or not the Americans would be there for them if they were attacked? Because they were now American citizens?

The United States and Israel have had to stand against the world many times in the United Nations. It is quite clear that our two democratic nations are perceived by many other nations, despotic, socialist, communistic, etc. to be the real threats to their continuing ineffectual regimes. The bond between us is already there: Israel gets more American foreign aid than any other nation. Don't you suppose that is because we, Republicans and Democrats alike realize the Israel is America's best ally and best hope for destroying or containing radical Islamist fundamentalism? Even more so than the ever more socialist Brits? Besides, then we could tax them and get some of our liberal funding returned to the national coffers.

Consider what a formidable power we then become in the Mideast with the capability to project our full military power north, south and east from our Commonwealth of Israel with an American-owned sea at our backs and deep-water ports at Haifa, Ashdod and Eilat. And with the annexation comes the immediate augmentation of our armed forces with one of the most superb fighting machines ever developed. That would be one hell of a National Guard component that would put all our states to shame. Plus, think of all the scientific development potential that accrues to America from this small territory which just happens to publish more technical research articles per capita than any nation in the world. Some of the greatest thinkers in the world would now be thinking on behalf of America and able to do so without having to worry about ending up as intellectual captives of some despotic, Islamic regime.

I know this sounds simplistic on the surface but I truly believe that we are bound more closely to these frequently contentious, sometimes irascible, Israeli bastards than we are any other peoples of the world with the possible exception of the British, the Canadians and the Australians. And yes, I know the racist, cultural implications of that observation; but I think it is another one of those truths we tend to shy away from, but know, deep down, to be undeniable. If it were truly racist, then the Europeans would stand with us, which as we well know, they damned well won't. Unless, of course, it's their balls in the fire with the Huns or the Slavs assaulting their capitols. It is far more cultural, with those countries having democratic societies and governmental systems realizing that there are strong forces in the world who would like nothing better than to see them undone.

Welcome to the Dogs.

Russ

Contributed by Russ Vaughn on July 15, 2006 at 11:48 PM in Islamism Delenda Est, Russ Vaughn | Permalink

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