{"id":1781,"date":"2015-03-16T07:25:36","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T06:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/?p=1781"},"modified":"2015-09-01T11:36:17","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T10:36:17","slug":"some-hawks-actually-harm-national-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=1781","title":{"rendered":"Some Hawks Actually Harm National Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/c\/c6\/BenjaminNetanyahu.jpg\" alt=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/c\/c6\/BenjaminNetanyahu.jpg\" width=\"112\" height=\"150\" \/>I love <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/middle_east\/netanyahu-warns-supporters-he-may-lose-in-tuesdays-election\/2015\/03\/15\/8fb5cf8a-c686-11e4-bea5-b893e7ac3fb3_story.html\">this article article by the Washington Post<\/a> about the likelihood of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benjamin_Netanyahu\">Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Israel\">Israel<\/a> losing to his <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Israeli_Labor_Party\">Labor Party<\/a> rivals.\u00a0 It reminds me of the old joke about the CEO.\u00a0 When she goes into his office for the 1st time she finds three envelopes and a note from the previous CEO that reads, \u201copen these envelopes in order when you run into trouble.\u201d\u00a0 And so the first time she runs into trouble, she opens the first envelope and finds a note that reads, \u201cblame your predecessor\u201d.\u00a0 And she does so and it works.\u00a0 The next time she has problems, the note inside the second envelope reads, \u201creorganize\u201d, which she does.\u00a0 And the third time she runs into trouble, she opens the third envelope to find a note that\u00a0 reads, \u201cwrite out three envelopes\u201d.\u00a0 Surely Bibi is on his third envelope.\u00a0 We will see if he opens it tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Hawks in Israel are blaming external forces for Mr. Netanyahu&#8217;s downfall.\u00a0 Could it be that Bibi had something to do with it by alienating the leader of the most powerful nation on earth, by playing into domestic politics in America and potentially making support for Israel a partisan- rather than bipartisan &#8211; issue?\u00a0 In other words, this hawk may have harmed his own country&#8217;s through his undermining of support for his country.<\/p>\n<p>The same could be said about <a href=\"http:\/\/cotton.senate.gov\">Senator Cotton<\/a> and the 46 senators who sent a letter to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ali_Khamenei\">Ayatollah Khamenei<\/a>.\u00a0 Just because they might want to rely on force doesn&#8217;t mean it is the right way to protect Americans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love this article article by the Washington Post about the likelihood of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel losing to his Labor Party rivals.\u00a0 It reminds me of the old joke about the CEO.\u00a0 When she goes into his office for the 1st time she finds three envelopes and a note from the previous &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=1781\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Some Hawks Actually Harm National Security&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[491,304,490],"class_list":["post-1781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-security","tag-hawks","tag-israel","tag-netanyahu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1781"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1803,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions\/1803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}