Miller should know; when he was a key player in the Bush #41 Administration the relationship got so bad that his boss, Secretary of State James Baker declared he didn't care about how the Jewish vote would punish the President for his Middle East policy. Baker said, "F**k the Jews, they won't vote for us anyway!" As bad as the relationship was during the Bush #41 administration, Miller told Mitchell that this administration's relationship is worse:
The reality is, and I made this point to you before Andrea, is that unlike Lehman Brothers, the U.S.-Israeli relationship driven as it is by common values, even though there are interests that are not mutually held on everything, also driven by common interests and a region that is melting down, unlike Lehman Brothers, it’s too big to fail. That said, let’s be clear, and I’ve watched quite a few American presidents and Israeli Prime Ministers deal with one another. This is by far the most dysfunctional relationship.
There've been tensions before, Shamir and Bush 41, Carter and Began, even Clinton and Netanyahu and his first incarnation and I am not able to use the Clinton line although I quoted in my last book after he had his first meeting with Netanyahu ["Who's the f---- superpower here"]. But the reality is this is tension without purpose and without production. There are purposeful fights and tensions with the Israelis and there are unproductive ones. This is frankly more soap opera than serious policy.
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yet every (EVERY) new prescription requires that their robot calls to
wake me up, that I recite in a loud voice all the secret pass-phrases
and approve the order before they will ship it.
Finding me already awake requires a do-over. Faking sleep does not work.
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