Worth noting - this is the first election in recent memory where neither major party candidate has foreign policy or military experience.  Granted, after four years in office one can make a pretty good argument that Obama now has foreign policy experience in spades (whether you agree with what he's done is another story), but it's worth noting.  The Romney/Ryan ticket seems to be completely ignoring foreign policy - neither one has any experience with it, and so far their foreign policy team is not getting rave reviews, and so far his foreign policy in action has been...disastrous.  

Serious question for the TnTers who support Romney - does it worry you that his foreign policy team is heavily weighted with the neoconservatives who supported the Iraq War, and that Romney will likely defer to them since he has no foreign policy knowledge of his own?  Do you think we can afford another large scale war in the Middle East?  

Allons-y!

Governments dominated by "religious" extremists almost uniformly suck. Israel's religious fanatics seem every bit as wicked to me as Iran's or Iraq's or Lebanon's, notwithstanding their occasional pretence of tolerance for people with Western sensibilities.

Any orchestrated feminist movement (like that promoted by Pussy Riot) would unleash more chaos in Israel than it has in Russia, as most haredim, ultra-Orthodox, and neo-Orthodox types in Israel find feminism as offensive as any Saudi sheik would.

Too bad Alf hates Jews indiscriminately or he would really appreciate Bibi Netanyahu. As in Singapore or Saudi, fascism continues to live large in Western-supported regimes. At least Singapore doesn't want to occupy Malaysia and drag America into war to accomplish its goals.