Obama, the Sinking of the Cheonan, and the Failure of Nuclear Deterrence
The Liberty survivors were silenced to protect Israel. You need to educate yourself on the facts. The Egyptian ship you mentioned was a small coastal freighter (a horse scow). The much larger Liberty was bristling with antenna. Israeli pilots train in the U.S., and use the same ship-recognition tools as our pilots. Read a few of the books written by the survivors. My loyalty is to America, and I believe what the Liberty survivors have to say. To say that Israel commits crimes is not to hate Jews. This is the Zionist excuse used to justify those crimes. My Comment was not about Israel, but rather geopolitics, with the Liberty incident an example. I made no judgment on how it was handled, but now I will. If I were Johnston, I would have allowed the U.S. Navy jets scrambled to rescue the Liberty by sinking the Israeli PT boats. Than I would have muzzled everyone until hostilities were over, at which point I would have demanded full reparations from Israel for all the victims. That would have been the Machiavellian, but pro-American solution.
