Rick Perry's Peculiar Patriotism

I'm afraid Rick Perry is one of those politicians who practice "nationalism by proxy."  That is, he has no intention of defending our borders, despite the fact that he governs a state with a very long border with Mexico, and goes so far as to denounce Arizona's plans to defend its portion of that border.  But, he's very concerned with the defense of Israel's borders, going so far as to, acting as the Governor of Texas, urge Eric Holder to somehow arrange to stop the flotilla that was annoying Israel last year.  Kind of like the Mayor of Peoria declaring war on China for invading Tibet. There's a little analysis of this inappropriate idiocy HERE.  He went on to make his devotion to Israel extra-clear Tuesday. Perry's just another Confused Christian, who read Leon Uris's Exodus or saw the movie by the same name with Paul Newman and Sal Mineo and thought it was part of the Bible.  Here are the facts, folks.  Israel is just another foreign country with its own interests, like Japan or Bulgaria or Ecuador.  No reason we can be friendly with it, but also no reason to think it'll ever, ever, consider our interests as important as its own.  And when some goofball says that US interests are the same as Israel's, he's just blathering nonsense.  Interests of any two nations may occasionally coincide, but never be identical.  That's why they're two different countries.  Now, a couple of proofs of this — it is not in the interests of the United States to be spied on, and Israel spies on us. Nor is it in our interest to have our Navy ships attacked.  Israel attacked one of our Navy ships.  Get the picture?  That doesn't mean that Israel is the embodiment of evil, just that it's another country with its own interests.  I'm sure a lot of countries would attack our ships if they thought they could get away with it.  Somebody needs to enlighten Rick Perry, and Michele Bachmann, and just about all our other politicians, about this niggling fact.