re: #136 palomino

Sounds a lot like Pres. Nixon. If you haven’t seen the recent HBO documentary “Nixon by Nixon”, then check it out. He was appallingly racist, even for his time. Most memorable quotes: “Blacks in America live like animals. They won’t catch up to the rest of us for 500 years.” And “Jews can’t be trusted, they never stop lying. They’re all disloyal, and they mostly hate America.” Presumably this is why he didn’t have a lot of Jews on his staff, and for those he did (Kissinger), he demanded their phones were tapped and offices bugged.

The great irony there is despite his dislike of Jews, Nixon ordered US air shipments of arms to Israel during the Yom Kipur War of 1973, and those weapons were instrumental in the eventual Israeli victory.

Nixon’s heart was in the wrong place, but know abandoning allies is unwise.