Lou, the mother ship will be here soon to pick you up.

His bias against the Bush administration is showing again. I can just picture him as he wrote this weeks op-ed piece about the current crisis in the middle east. Red-faced, knocking back gin and tonics while poping geritol and pain killers. Lou Dobbs is old school, but he has seems to have drifted out of touch. Maybe he's always been this way and I just never paid any attention.

Lou: "President Harry Truman took about 20 minutes to recognize the state of Israel when it declared independence in 1948. Since then, more than 58 years of war, terrorism and blood-letting have led to the events of the past week."

In 1939 Truman said: "Today, not tomorrow, we must do all that is humanly possible to provide a haven for all those who can be grasped from the hands of Nazi butchers. Free lands must be opened to them."

The United States didn't recognized Israel as a state until May 14th 1948. Margaret Truman said it was the most difficult decision Harry Truman ever faced as president.

Danial Pipes, in reviewing Michael T. Benson's book Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel makes these observations about Truman's decision:

Everyone knows that Harry Truman provided help to the Zionists because he could count votes, and there were few Arab votes in 1948. That, anyway, is the thesis developed by John Snetsinger in 1974 and since repeated ad nauseum. Well, it turns out not to be true. In a masterful and exciting presentation, Benson proves that Truman's policies resulted not from nose-counting but from deeply-held beliefs. His pro-Israel outlook "was based primarily on humanitarian, moral, and sentimental grounds, many of which were an outgrowth of the president's religious upbringing and his familiarity with the Bible." Extensive research into Truman's biography and earlier career shows his impressive consistency. Benson, of the University of Utah, establishes Truman as a studious child and deeply religious young man who, when he unexpectedly found himself in the Oval Office, lived faithfully by his precepts. In the case at hand, he expressed sympathy for Zionism as early as 1939 and reiterated his views many times subsequently.


Truman's determination had great importance; of the many momentous issues in his presidency, he personally involved himself most directly with what he called the "puzzle of Palestine." In Benson's words, these personal interventions against the entirety of the American foreign policy establishment "constantly rescued" the Jews from defeat. The author concludes that the standard account of Truman risking U.S. security interests for cheap political advantage is deeply unfair to this most moral and honorable of American presidents.

Lou goes on to say: "While the United States provides about $2.5 billion in military and economic aid to Israel each year, U.S. aid to Lebanon amounts to no more than $40 million. This despite the fact that the per capita GDP of Israel is among the highest in the world at $24,600, nearly four times as high as Lebanon's GDP per capita of $6,200."

It's obvious Lou thinks we should be giving a state that provides support to Hezbollah and Hamas more money. They have been making some good moves, but as long as Hezbollah is allowed to run around untouch, we should limit the money given to them. Lou's "not enough money theory" is a lame excuse for the violence anyway. Using his logic if a panhandler attacks you in the street for not giving him/her any money, it's your fault for not giving them money. See below.

Lous says: Lebanon's lack of wealth is matched by the Palestinians -- three out of every four Palestinians live below the poverty line. Yet the vast majority of our giving in the region flows to Israel. This kind of geopolitical inconsistency and shortsightedness has contributed to the Arab-Israeli conflict that the Western world seems content to allow to perpetuate endlessly.

EVIL AMERICANS. YOU ONLY GIVE US $40 MILLION A YEAR! SO WE BLOW YOU AND YOU JEWISH FRIENDS UP UNTIL YOU GIVE US MORE!!!!!!!

Until these left wing weirdos get in touch with reality, we'll never have any type of decent debate on the issue.

CIA WORLD FACTBOOK on Lebanon: https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/le.html