No can do! George W. did! Iraq! Boots on ground, impossible! Iraq!! Quagmire!! Body bags! Blood for Oil!!
Sorry, no intervention in Syria because that would serve to legitimise ex post facto, what the hated GWB did in Iraq!
Off-Topic, Max, but a POV would help on this: The first action of the Talib in Afghanistan when they attained power was to deliberately and wantonly destroy the Bamiyan Buddhas.
So what will happen to all the figurines in The Egyptian Antiquities Museums, the monolithic Kings and Queens, the Sphinx itself, when the idol-destroying Muslim Brotherhood brings in Sha'aria in Egypt, and Libya and Yemen and etc.? They can't sell them! They can't hide them! They cannot bear to see them!
Yes, sirree. Bob. The iconoclast-boys are about to have a "smashing" time!
Tra-la-la-BOOM-te-yay! Yay!

There is a story in the Talmud about a student who, with faith in his own calculations, decided that Yom Kippur was a day earlier than scheduled. He told his Rabbi, who ORDERED him to take his staff in his hand, put his sandals on his feet and walk to the Rabbi's house on the day he considered was Yom Kippur...which he did...on the day he had sworn was Yom Kippur...
The moral? Dissent all you want but be prepared to LIVE your dissent, to be schooled by those who know better; to be so publicly committed to your beliefs that you are prepared to defy the observances of your community...
Those Jews who dissent nowadays are not like this disciple who was ready to give up his own logic and reason because he had more faith in his Rabbi than he had in himself. Dissent only begins when the cowards among us scream that they know better than the 3000 years of wisdom that is available to us!

Dennis, we are not here talking about American "Jews", who are indeed among the lowest of the low (not all, but a mighty big proportion! Mostly they vote Democrat!)
We are talking about Israeli Jews who went to America as Israelis, high-minded, committed-to-a-better-world Jews, supported by the Israeli taxpayer Jews, brightest of the bright Jews, who have been seduced by the lure of the bright lights and big cities (we have them in Israel too!)
How do you feel about Americans who become Muslims? Do you want them back? What about Americans who become terrorists? Do you want THEM back? What about the 150.000 draft dodgers who went to Canada in the 60's and 70's. Did you want THEM back?
Well, as Jews it is our obligation to want back those who have left the fold, even those who have hurt the Jewish People while outside the fold. It is a moral and an economic imperative.
What would America feel like if she lost 10% of her doctors? 10% of her engineers? THAT is what has happened with us? We pay for their education in the USA and lo and behold they REFUSE to come back to repay their loans, do their National Service, serve the country which has made them what they are.
Let me insist: We don't necessarily want American Jews; they can come to Israel anytime they choose, they will be welcomed, they can make lives and have families here; what do they owe America? What if they owed America $50,000 in student loans? Would you want THEM back?
We want back the Israeli Jews who still owe Israel labour, if not love.
Come back, fulfil your contracts and promises, and then you can go live in Timbuctoo or Timbucthree for all we care!

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No, it's the lethal seduction of the Whore of Hollywood, the deadly calls of the Sirens of Manhattan.
The word "Yordim" means "those who go down, who descend, who kowtow to unknown temptations"
The Talmud itself reminds us that such people have descended from the pinnacle of spiritual and mental life, living in the Holy Land, seduced away by vain and false promises of a better life in the Sodoms and Gomorrahs of the USA. Of course we want them back; we want them to live up to the promises they made, the contracts they signed, the spirits they have torn away from the body; We must let them know that although they may be free to choose where they wish to live, they are leaving a high place for a low place, a nourishing life for the desert of pecuniary gain, a reality for a fata morgana...
Come back they will, sooner or later. Most with their children when they experience the true depths to which they and their children will sink as "Yordim"...and many many others in plain winding sheets to be buried in the land of their fathers.
But return they will...we're just reminding them to choose Israel while still with life and breath!

You are labouring under a misapprehension; you seem to think that a country such as Israel can afford to lose 10%, yes a full 10%, of its best and brightest, whose education was paid for mostly by the State, who agreed to pay back those costs to the State, that we can afford to lose those people to the lure of greed and easy money that America affords.
They went abroad as Israelis, often to study subsidised by the Israeli Govt, and then they stayed abroad? Why? Is Israel so bad, America so good that these people can wantonly break their promises?

If it happens once it's a miracle; if repeated it's medicine; if it happens every time it's Taqqiya!

When Moses stood before the Burning Bush and was told that he had to go back to Egypt he demurred:
I killed an Egyptian, I ran away; if I go back they will kill me..."
You have to go back, Moses: Everyone who wanted you dead are themselves dead...
What? ALL of them???

The Rabbis duly explained "The erstwhile Moses-killers HAD LOST THEIR MONEY, THEIR POWER, THEIR INFLUENCE...to all intents and purposes THEY WERE DEAD MEN...

So, if you really want to kill these miscreants and yet leave them alive to despair and weep and mourn...TAKE AWAY THEIT ILL-GOTTEN GAINS....

Archibald McLeish wrote, pace POETRY, "A poem should not mean, but be..."
I write, pace OWS, "Vandalism, graffiti, hooliganism, rioting, mobs, anarchy, Liberalism, mayhem, car-keying, rape and anti-semitism do not mean, but are!"

Whores will be whores; traitors traitors; cowards cowards;
They did it because they thought anti-war was a way to make a buck! Vietnam had been a blockbuster, why not Iraq?
So, not only are the Redfords and the Moores and the Sarandons and the Damons whores, traitors and cowards; they are dumb-ass capitalists too...
Of course, in the end, they don't make movies with their own money..they have investors! Those are the real traitors, whores and cowards!

Yep, and MLK day is hatred of whites day; and Pearl Harbour Day is ditto for the Nippos. X'mas is hatred of babies day, Easter of Jews, Lincoln of tall Illinoyers, and finally Independence day is hatred of Britain and France Day. May Ist targets International Workers and Unions...
Ah! What the heck! I hate Soros. Let's create a Soros Day!