---False analogy. The belief in American hegemony has been explicitly affirmed by the neocons in power and its effects are clearly visible in US policy since 9/11. It is 'adolescent' to imagine that religious beliefs in Jewish "chosenness" underlie Israeli policy. Israel is simply attempting realpolitik. Whether it is doing so wisely or not is, of course, a separate question.

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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IJ26Ak06.html

26 October 2007

"... The barely reported highlight of Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to Tehran for the Caspian Sea summit last week was a key face-to-face meeting with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

A high-level diplomatic source in Tehran tells Asia Times Online that essentially Putin and the Supreme Leader have agreed on a plan to nullify the George W Bush administration's relentless drive towards launching a preemptive attack, perhaps a tactical nuclear strike, against Iran. An American attack on Iran will be viewed by Moscow as an attack on Russia. ..."

Here is the maxim under one pseudonym or another I have always reminded us of: 'Absolute or perfect balance in the world is rigged to be not possible (the world is alive and dynamic, not hypothetical); and for this very reason on the other hand approximate balance is Requisite.'

Children or more specifically 'adolescents' "think" or more accurately in this regard 'believe' in terms of absolutes ... they take a non-dynamic [or absolute] wish or fantasy and 'believe' in it 'as if' they are actually 'thinking'. There's is nothing wrong with 'belief' indeed it is in human or conceptual creatures a BIOLOGICAL necessity. We do it and will always do it all the time. The mistake is to confuse it with thought. A belief [wish or idea] is open-ended, and good in that regard. Apparently even mother Nature has proven to be paradoxically in some NARROW regards open ended in allowing for creatures (ourselves) who are not only aware and thinking unconsciously...but aware of being aware and also thinking consciously as well. A thought in comparison with beliefs or a wish or an idea is not open ended. Rather it is something complete in itself and something we can Do. Here's a thought - 'don't confuse motion with action.'

'In 2003 and 2004 came the U.S.-supported and financed “color-coded revolutions” in Georgia and Ukraine, the geopolitical equivalent of Putin engineering anti-American regime changes in Mexico and Canada.' -Trifkovic

The 'belief' in American right to hegemony or the cultural underpinning of a jewish notion in their being 'chosen' ... is adolescence. Putin argued in the past let's give them the benefit of the doubt. Now he is acting, based on our adolescent belief that an untenable IMBALANCE toward ourselves in the world is a good thing, by his instead having to become the sane responsible parent...in noticing Approximate Balance is Requisite.

I have also written in the past of noticing his courage and sanity, and am glad to see it continues to be the case. Of course perfect or absolute balance is NOT possible...only the temptation to act in one's own interests in tipping the balance/s...too much toward oneself. We can Hope once it is Russia's or china's turn to make that mistake they do Not choose to. Or if they do then perhaps in the future America may have its own Putin. That would be 'nice.'
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And what might possibly a connection between "popes" and this thread be?

Thank you.