When I think that my blood pressure is too low, I head over to The Fox Nation in an act of self-flagellation. This evening, I was rewarded with the type of insane, paranoid delusions that I usually think are reserved for Glenn Beck.
Over at Jewish World Review, Frank Gaffney completely loses his fucking shit.
This column consists of Gaffney going off on a dark, surreal fantasy in which President Obama, advised by his "anti-Israel troika of female advisers" (Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, UN Ambassador Susan Rice and National Security Council member Samantha Power) uses the precedent set by our intervention in Libya to declare war on Israel.
This is certifiably loony. The United States has spent the last several decades vetoing every UN resolution that had anything to do with Israel. We provide them with enormous amounts of military, financial, logistical and diplomatic support. Our leaders have to make a clear show of constantly expressing how willing they are to intervene on Israel's behalf.
And yet now we're going to invade them to defend the Palestinians at the behest of the Arab League.
It shows something creepy and dangerous about the mentality of the ultra right wing in American politics. The conspiratorial, apocalyptic fantasies that they dream up are absolutely beyond comprehension.
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