(March 16, 2014 at 9:39 am)jimmyk2190 Wrote:(March 16, 2014 at 9:31 am)TaraJo Wrote: 1) You're doing that multi-quote thing again. Stop it.ok but hasent the us gone into the middle east partly to protect israel??
2) Just because a lobby is domestic doesn't mean they have the best interests of the US at heart. In fact, I'd dare to say with what kind of damage the NRA is doing to us socio-politically, they're far more damaging than any Isreal lobby whether they're domestic or not.
the us congress votes on whether or not to go to war and the israel lobby has a great deal on influence in congress
Yep. That's kinda how lobbying works. We invaded Iraq at the request of oil companies lobbying, we imprison a huge number of our people at the request of lobbying from private prisons, we cut taxes on corporations to insanely low levels at the request of the Koch brothers and we maintain much more military than we need because of lobbying from defense contractors. We allow mentally disturbed people easy access to high power weapons because of lobbying from the NRA. They speak out for the benefit of their group; all of them. Just because the group in question happens to be a foreign nation doesn't make them any better than domestic entities.
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"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama