SO ISRAEL IS A DRAG ON AMERICA ??

http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2011/ss_israel007_01_12.asp
TAKE A LOOK AT ABOVE ARTICLE -LOOKS LIKE OBAMA MAY THROW ISRAEL UNDER THE BUS IN ORDER TO PROTECT THEIR PRICE OF OIL. THE FACT THAT ISRAEL IS IN EFFECT THE ONLY TRUE AND DEPENDABLE ALLY THAT AMERICA HAS NOW MEANS NOTHING. YES ACCORDING TO ARTICLE AMERICA IS ADVISED TO DROP TIES WITH ISRAEL AND FOR INSTANCE STRENGTHEN TIES WITH PAKISTAN . YUP THE SAME PAKISTAN THAT HAS BEEN AND IS STABBING AMERICA IN THE BACK """a U.S. withdrawal of support for Israel, which receives $3 billion a year in American aid, would restore balance in the Middle East, Friedman argued. He said Washington's recent policy has destabilized the region as well as bolstered Indian dominance of Pakistan.

"Owing largely to recent U.S. policy, those balances are unstable or no longer exist," Friedman said. "The Israelis are no longer constrained by their neighbors and are now trying to create a new reality on the ground."

"The Pakistanis have been badly weakened by the war in Afghanistan, and they are no longer an effective counterbalance to India. And, most important, the Iraqi state has collapsed, leaving the Iranians as the most powerful military force in the Persian Gulf area," Friedman said.

The book also called on Washington to recognize Iran as the new power in the Middle East. Friedman argued that Washington must arrange a detente with Teheran similar to that with China in the 1970s and the Soviet Union in the 1940s. He said Iran already dominates neighboring Iraq.

"And in the spirit of Roosevelt's entente with the USSR during World War II, as well as Nixon's entente with China in the 1970s, the United States will be required to make a distasteful accommodation with Iran, regardless of whether it attacks Iran's nuclear facilities," Friedman said. "These steps will demand a more subtle exercise of power than we have seen on the part of recent presidents."

Friedman said the decline in U.S. support for Israel must mark the first step in a revised American foreign policy. He said this was vital for what he termed the survival of the U.S. empire."""