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http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/07/serious_selfreflection.asp   

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“Serious Self-Reflection”

Haaretz reports today: “Obama to U.S. Jewish leaders: Israel must engage in self-reflection”

And not just any old self-reflection. According to the article, Obama told Jewish leaders at the White House yesterday that Israel would need "to engage in serious self-reflection."

“Serious self-reflection!” It’s really good that Barack Obama is reminding the leaders and people of Israel to engage in that. I hope they’re up to it. After all, what do Israelis know about reflecting on, and living with, the life and death consequences of political decisions? What do Bibi Netanyahu and Ehud Barak and Moshe Ya’alon -- either as individuals or as leaders -- know about war and peace? These are guys -- and the Israelis are a people -- who just coast along, taking an easy path, never debating, never thinking, never questioning, never second-guessing...and never making or asking their fellow citizens to make sacrifices.

Barack Obama, Rahm Emanuel, and David Axelrod, on the other hand -- they’re seriously self-reflective individuals. Look at their wide experiences at peace and in war. Look how they’ve had to grapple with life and death decisions for decades. For them, it’s not just talk and spin and positioning. The American president and his advisors -- they’ve made personal sacrifices, they’ve come to grips with the tough choices over their decades of accomplishment in public life. They’ve got the standing to lecture the people and leaders of Israel on the need for self-reflection.

And so they did.

Posted by William Kristol on July 14, 2009 03:17 PM | Permalink

  And may i add osama needs to reflect on nigra rev wright who hates the U.S. and who supports Hamas in a new letter.He also needs to reflect on his buddy the terrorist Bill Ayres as well as dead swine friend edward said, chimpy osama obamass has much reflection coming

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The mens room attendant.   I have no real use for Kristol.  He was too much of a Bush lackey to be trusted.

[Ithaca-37]

"I have no real use for Kristol.  He was too much of a Bush lackey to be trusted."

In fact, when GWB ran for president in 2000, Kristol was a major cheerleader for John McCain during the Republican primaries.  And that only makes his credentials as a conservative even more tenuous.

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