Susan Rice -"Barack Obama Will Do Anything Necessary To Defend Israel"

[DemocratSinceBirth]

What am I (we) supposed to infer from that?

I would do anything necessary to defend my mom and girlfriend including dying or killing to protect them...

[cali]

1. you miss the point. this is about rhetoric and using

words like "obliterate" are not helpful. They escalate tensions. She's pulling a page from the GWB book of failed diplomacy when uses such heated rhetoric.

[JoFerret]

2. Nuke Iran?

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[chascarrillo]

3. I infer that Obama isn't going to casually say he's going to totally obliterate Iran.

That statement of Hillary's is even worse than Reagan's "We begin bombing in ten minutes" joke. After all, at least that was just a joke.

[ShortnFiery]

4. Obama makes the same point without OVERTLY taunting Iran, et. al., that's the difference.

It's called "tact" not to be confused with "self-aggrandizement and pandering to authoritarian mindsets."

But HRC in her effort to "impress" the blue collar men that she's "got game and swagger" felt a need to also slobber all over MACHISMO with the inflammatory "Massive Retaliation" and "Obliterate."

Hey! You can make the same point without PANDERING to certain segments of the American Populace. How in the HELL can we begin "a dialog" with HRC's blustery *massive retaliation?* ... I think I heard Europe figuratively GASP when she postured "like a warmongering republican."

HRC is shameless in the fact that she'd do ANYTHING to grasp the power of The Executive Branch. IMO it's pathological PERSONAL ambitions, not love of country, that motivates The Clintons. :nuke:

[shraby]

5. I don't know what all the hoopla about defending

Israel is about..it always appeared to me that Israel is very capable of defending itself..right from the day they announced their independent state, and even before that when establishing their place in the world.