Subject: Re: Warning to emerging powers

DON'T DO IT. You don't need it. Don't become like America --- a great power, but also a slave.

As offered before, I think the US got into this position a long time ago, by not joining WWII, and putting an end to the Nazi horror sooner. The US even prohibited a liner full of refugees landing. The ship went back to Germany, and many of those people died, because of the US.

So the US started out with a guilt burden. iirc, the US was the first country to officially recognize Israel.

But that was 80 years ago.

Israel now has a strong economy, and a huge and capable military. But it continues to play the victim card, that has worked so well, since 1948, especially on the US.

Steve