Romney claims Israelis culturally superior to Palestinians

[_Bond James Bond]

So is Israel culturally superior to Poland since Israel has higher GDP than Poland?

http://www.indexmundi.com/poland/gdp_per_capita_(ppp).html
GDP - per capita (PPP):
$20,100 (2011 est.)
$19,400 (2010 est.)
$18,600 (2009 est.)

[_DrW]

So is Israel culturally superior to Poland since Israel has higher GDP than Poland?

http://www.indexmundi.com/poland/gdp_per_capita_(ppp).html
GDP - per capita (PPP):
$20,100 (2011 est.)
$19,400 (2010 est.)
$18,600 (2009 est.)

There is no need for any further discussion on this issue.

According to the RM (Romney Metric), one need only consult World Bank or other publications listing national per capita GDP numbers to determine the relative value of the culture of any given society.

It has recently ben established that the most valuable culture on the planet is that of the Arab state of Qatar, with a projected per capita annual income for 2012 of $109,000.

The Christian Nation of the United States of America, chosen and established by God himself, comes in at number 7, behind a variety of Islamic, secular and communist cultures. (What's up with that?)

Mitt Romney and his campaign are batting 1,000, having created at least one PR disaster per country on his Foreign Policy showcase tour. Americans can count themselves lucky to have seen the gaffe master* candidate in action before the election.

* (c) Kishkumen, 2012 All RIghts Reserved (Used without express permission)

[_bcspace]

Paging Dr. Peterson or those that lurk here on his behalf:

Would you please ask Daniel to come and reply to the breathtaking ignorance displayed by bcspace's last post? He'll never listen to me, but he might listen to DCP.

He won't come. He has no protection here and he knows I have him beat on this issue. He even likely would agree with much of what I say about this anyway as he has heretofore been restricted in what can say because of his job.

[_LittleNipper]

So is Israel culturally superior to Poland since Israel has higher GDP than Poland?

http://www.indexmundi.com/poland/gdp_per_capita_(ppp).html
GDP - per capita (PPP):
$20,100 (2011 est.)
$19,400 (2010 est.)
$18,600 (2009 est.)

There is no need for any further discussion on this issue.

According to the RM (Romney Metric), one need only consult World Bank or other publications listing national per capita GDP numbers to determine the relative value of the culture of any given society.

It has recently ben established that the most valuable culture on the planet is that of the Arab state of Qatar, with a projected per capita annual income for 2012 of $109,000.

The Christian Nation of the United States of America, chosen and established by God himself, comes in at number 7, behind a variety of Islamic, secular and communist cultures. (What's up with that?)

Mitt Romney and his campaign are batting 1,000, having created at least one PR disaster per country on his Foreign Policy showcase tour. Americans can count themselves lucky to have seen the gaffe master* candidate in action before the election.

* (c) Kishkumen, 2012 All RIghts Reserved (Used without express permission)

At the very least Mr. Romney is a Statesman and does not seem to be a political liar. He says what he believes and believes what he says and doesn't seem to be speaking out of both side of his mouth. For far too long the truth has been covered up to "not insult" those who have some agenda or other. I feel that Mr. Romney would make a far better President than most Democratic POLITICIANS ever would. The area of Israel was a relative wasteland until the Jews started to migrate (return) there. What is presently the nation of Israel owes very little (if anything) to what the Palestinians formerly accomplished up to that point.

[_Kishkumen]

At the very least Mr. Romney is a Statesman and does not seem to be a political liar. He says what he believes and believes what he says and doesn't seem to be speaking out of both side of his mouth.

Gasp! Guffaw! OMG!!!!!!

You're joking, right?

The guy changes position with every shift in the breeze!

You honestly think he is not a political liar?

He is notorious among fellow Republicans for being a political liar!

[_DarkHelmet]

At the very least Mr. Romney is a Statesman and does not seem to be a political liar. He says what he believes and believes what he says and doesn't seem to be speaking out of both side of his mouth.

Seriously? One of the biggest criticisms of Romney, from both his Conservative and Democrat opponents, has been his ability to talk out of both sides of his mouth. Even on this issue he is back peddling and claiming he never said it.

[_Droopy]

The point is, a President or Presidential candidate has to act presidential.

Which is precisely and exactly what he did, in the best Churchillian and Reagenesqu fashion. He told the truth about endemic and pervasive tendencies present in Arab/Muslim culture and the state of those societies relative to Israeli society. He named, clarified, classified, called out, drew a line in the sand, and created a moral/ethical/philosophical frame of reference. Churchill did that with the Nazis (to which the Islamists are close kin), Roosevelt with the Nazis and the Japanese totalitarians, and Reagan with the evil empire and revolutionary socialism.

The alternative, of course, is the traditional facile, craven, American diplomatic corps, civil service, and State Department multi-culti realpolitik and doublespeak who's only objective is to mask reality behind words and ideological slogans and not rock any boats or upset any status quo applecarts while Rome continues to burn.

Many non-mormons have a negative opinion of Mormon culture, but the point is a Presidential candidate should not offend that culture.

1. Mormons are not Islamists

2. Mormon culture, and American/Western culture generally, are a vastly divergent poles than Middle Eastern Arab/Muslim culture, generally speaking (except for certain isolated, fringe, deviant subcultures within American society, such as the Democratic party, the Congressional Black Caucus, Nation of Islam, La Raza, La Mecha, pop Hip Hop culture, and the "studies" departments across the higher ed landscape).

The US wants Israel and the Palestinians to ultimately negotiate a peace agreement. Therefore, although Israel is our ally, we try to present ourselves as a neutral broker.

This is pure fantasy, Dark, in my long considered opinion. I do not say that lightly, and I'm the last person on earth to ever beat war drums except as an utter last resort. There will never be a peace agreement (as the decades-long "peace process" attests) until one of two and perhaps three things occurs:

1. Islamic/Muslim society undergoes a profound religious reformation, perhaps much like the Protestant Reformation, and the Islamofascists are relegated to the margins of Muslim society and delegitimated completely among the general population. In other words, there needs to be some kind of de-Jihadification of Middle Eastern Arab/Muslim society.

2. A catastrophic war, so devastating and destructive that Muslims simply give up, out of sheer weariness with the cult of death, blood, genocide, racism, and blood libel that saturates much of their culture, their pursuance of "driving the Jews into the sea" and renounce the entire project.

The West, together united along a common front, use special forces and other resources to utterly, relentlessly, remorselessly, and without quarter destroy Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and scores of other more minor groups in depth, around the world and in the Middle East, leaving them neither root nor branch. Total extermination of these particular Gadianton Robbers just as the Nephites were forced to do after having allowed them to spread and infiltrate their own society without having taking them seriously and while preoccupied with the numerous corruptions, chaos, and ongoing social upheavals present in their own culture.

I think, in order of probability, that the second is to be avoided at all costs, if possible, the first is a pipe dream, so long as present cultural dynamics among Middle Eastern Muslims remains as it is, and the second as being the better evil out of a basket full of them.

[_Kishkumen]

Wow. Roughly half of the country belongs to a "deviant subculture" according to Drippy. What a moonbat.

[_Chap]

The West, together united along a common front, use special forces and other resources to utterly, relentlessly, remorselessly, and without quarter destroy Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and scores of other more minor groups in depth, around the world and in the Middle East, leaving them neither root nor branch. Total extermination of these particular Gadianton Robbers just as the Nephites were forced to do after having allowed them to spread and infiltrate their own society without having taking them seriously and while preoccupied with the numerous corruptions, chaos, and ongoing social upheavals present in their own culture.

What are those 'other resources' that might enable Droopy to fulfill his power fantasies? The power of the priesthood, perhaps? Send some missionaries to dust off their shoes in the appropriate direction?

Break it to him gently: The US and its allies do not have the military resources to do that job. That's why diplomacy is necessary.

[_Cicero]

Well, I do agree with Droopy that the Israeli/Palestinian conflict is unlikely to have a happy ending although certainly not for the reasons he stated. For one thing, Droopy keeps on referring to "muslims" in a grand collective sense, which completely ignores the profound religious, linquistic, racial and cultural schisms within Islam.

The main reason I am pessimistic is that I just don't see how we are ever going to get Likudniks and Hamas to ever agree on anything. I firmly beleive that Ehud Barak gave the Palestinians the best offer that they are ever going to get in 2000 and, to his eternal shame, Arafat turned it down.

But hey, I hope I'm wrong. After all, who would have guessed in 1950 that France and Germany would ever become such tight-knit allies after fighting each other for thousands of years.