Rubin again.

Like a female Jeff Goldberg,
she's more a one-trick advocacy pony for Israel's interests, rather than a well-rounded American political analyst.

Plus, she seems to confuse the desires of the U.S. Senatorial class* with the will of the American people.  Dangerous mistake, if she seriously believes anyone out here will once again accept the mindless march toward more killings.

On Friday, Congress spoke up to challenge the Obama administration’s participation in fruitless Iran talks. Even more important, multiple Senate offices told me it is full-stream ahead with the oil sanctions legislation.

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Moreover, on the subject of sanctions, the Senate remains determined to move ahead. An adviser to Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) was emphatic in a phone conversation Friday afternoon. She told me, “Senator Menendez is definitely pushing forward [with sanctions].” She told me that Menendez favors moving forward with negotiations but only if there is “genuine progress.” Sanctions are the means to accomplish this in his mind.
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Bethany Lesser, communications director for Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), echoed this sentiment. She said bluntly that “everyone still wants the bill to go to conference.”Likewise, a spokeswoman for Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) confirmed that he is still insisting that the oil sanctions bill go to conference and be passed promptly.

The story then is three-fold. First, a bipartisan group of senators want to end the kabuki dance. Iran needs to pony up, or we should stop the negotiations charade. The president won’t draw a line in the sand, but the Senate has.

Second, the line is not as rigorous some would prefer, but given Iranian intransigence it is very likely the Moscow talks will fall short. Both Iran and Obama will lose the protective cover of being “engaged in meaningful talks.”

And third, oil sanctions are moving ahead. Not a single senator in my brief survey who signed onto the letter or who withheld signature on the grounds it was not forceful enough is willing to delay imposition of oil sanctions.

This week we will find out whether the administration comes up with a phony deal with the Iranians to give the appearance of progress and whether lawmakers blow the whistle after another unsatisfactory meeting. Then the onus will be on Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to convene a conference and produce a bill for the president’s signature.

But those crippling sanctions have come very late as Iran compiles a sufficient stockpile of enriched uranium to make multiple bombs.

We are drawing close to the point when Obama will face the choice he has tried to avoid: Act militarily, support the Israelis’ military action or accept the “unacceptable,” a nuclear-armed revolutionary state sponsor of terror?

And as we arrive at that point it becomes clear that the only reason for Israel (with fewer military capabilities than the United States) to act militarily rather than the United States would be that the president, even on the most critical national security threat of our time, won’t lead.

On this one, I say the American president is representing the needs of the American  people just fine, thank you very much.  If Israel's own military behavior has become overbearing in recent years because of the artificial imbalance of possessing nukes, then perhaps a bit more parity between opponents in the region is just the thing needed to keep the peace.   Israel is much less likely to take and act with force if they know there is a counter force nearby ready and willing to respond to defend their own people too. A Cold War at this time in the region would be welcome, compared to the status quo killing of innocents, land confiscations, and the continued expense to U.S. military "defense" to essentially protect neighborhood bullies.

Let's wait until Iran actually attacks say, instead of merely upping their stockpile to match the arms race the Israeli's unwittingly started by ignoring non-proliferation treaties meant to protect, especially, vulnerable little countries like theirs. 

Once they lose these special privileges and rules they play under, I suspect Israel won't much like the final outcome of the game, and will be begging for mercy, protection, or to return to a place where they simply were an equal in they eyes of God with other law-abiding nations.

Don't expect the Rubin's or Goldberg's of the world to have the mental chops, or pragmatic foresight, to get there themselves;  preferred treatment and special exceptions for your own are mighty attractive, up until the day such unfairness and injustice eventually catches up to your game-playing.

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*If you're into the polls thing,
I think most Americans believe Congress is even more "captured" by special interest and lobbying money than the executive office, and we've seen how money, money and more money poured into that campaign has distracted from working to solve America's growing problems here at home.

Change yourselves, before it's too late?  I'm not certain anything can be done at this point to erase the innocent deaths, crimes and bitter enemies the State of Israel has created via her ill-advised actions, but I do know one thing:  this is not America's fight.

We've paid enough in terms of time, treasure and bloodshed this past decade.  Not to mention real dollars.  Enough, say the people out here, even if the Israel advocates and the captured US Senate is puffing differently.  Soon enough, our public servants will learn to listen and wean themselves from the foreign dollars pushing these panics that only the killing of "other" innocents can  solve.

Fear not.