If Americans Were More Like Israelis...

“If Americans were more like Israelis, Bush’s popularity at the polls would be at … 0 percent. That’s where Ehud Olmert’s approval rate is among Israelis, according to CNN. Olmert’s position at the polls had hovered between 2 and 3 percent, before bottoming out. The anger is over the Second Lebanon War last year. Israelis are furious not only over the execution of the war, but over the fact that it had been prosecuted at all. Whereas large segments of the fantasy-based community in the US see great benefits to the destabilization of Iraq, or at least so they say — Israelis in overwhelming numbers believe leveling Lebanon was a horrible thing to do. Oddly enough, here at home, harpies for Bush continue to talk up the Second Lebanon War, even though Israelis have long since disowned it and the president who prosecuted it.”

If Americans Were More Like Israelis...