Eric Cantor's Pledge of Allegiance...

[Torie]

It ain't "treason" folks. Cantor just thinks the Obama administration policy is wrong vis a vis Israel. It is time to calm down a bit. JMO.

I personally agree with Obama's hostility to the construction of new settlements. It is a bit odd, since in any peace agreement, the real estate on which these settlements are being built, will need to be ceded in any event. Maybe Israel is interested in a housing program for Palestinians or something, down the road.

[Torie]

I think Cantor is dead wrong, but what he said was clearly within the bounds of accepted discourse.  (See American politicians openly siding with Britain before US involvement in both World Wars).

A more apt analogy perhaps, would be a politician saying that Roosevelt should have done lend lease with the Nazi's rather than the Brits, perhaps. Yes, that is not treasonous either, and no, I am not comparing Israel to the Nazis. I don't think anyone per se complains about loyalty, where the assertion is that we should take a side in some foreign conflict, rather than not.

[Torie]

Eric Cantor's Pledge of Allegiance

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I've highlighted the more important section here that everyone is overlooking. Let's not wrongly soft sell this, people: Treason may be a little strong a term, but Cantor's statement here is still genuinely unprecedented.

I don't consider that inappropriate. If the Clinton administration, had taken the side of the Serbs in the Bosnian and Kosovo conflicts, I would be telling the Croats and Muslims in the two theaters exactly the same thing. It is our right as Americans, and it isn't treason, or in my opinion, in any way execrable. And yes, again, I don't agree with Cantor's opinion, but I don't consider it offensive beyond being wrong headed.

Who disagrees with my statement in the above paragraph again?