for all. Unless you can rationalize a few thousand more years of killing and an admitted policy geared toward genocide of a race. Who ever controls the water supply controls the arab street -- if they are willing to use it. Hamas and the PLO are willing; Israel is not. Israel realizes that Obama's cuts to the US military mean that the US no longer has the ability to be an effective ally to the anyone. Our navy is smaller than it was in 1915, the air force is retiring old aircraft without replacement; the army too small to win in Afganistan. Soon Japan, Korea, Eastern Europe and Western Europe will realize they are in their own. The US is not capable of filling its treaty commitments. Great article. Sadly (not for Mr Rubin) I am forced to say it is far superior and more clear-headed than Walter Russell Mead's take on the same war . Obama does not need to caress the anti-war left (pro-war on the other side, as the Blogfather says) so he can say nice things about Israel for now. The Left will continue to eat away at the Jacksonian tradition he claims to admire. The problem is that most elites are 'feminized' to the point of excluding all masculinaty. Let me explain. A totally masculine society is a barbaric society. Force is worshiped to the exclusion of all else. Diplomacy is viewed as weak and at best a tool to be used for eventual domination.