georgeob1 wrote:
I'm not sure of your point here. [........]
(I was peripherally involved in the damage assessment following the Pollard case, and got these impressions then. I believe our boy Jonathan will die in Federal prison.)
The boy Jonathan and his whole kin should be grateful for that fate - if he had been, say, Iranian, he would have fried; no question about it. Yet Iran never spied on the US, bombarded a US ship, or spent the last 60 years on the beg-borrow-blackmail-steal program. And in the immortal words of Sherlock Holmes: "There is nothing lower than a blackmailer."
Some "elements" (as you put it) in the US are getting so fed up with this monstrous, costly, and cumulative catastrophe in the near East, that Obama, whatever his faults, sounds a lot better than his Republican opponent because he grasps that one single element of foreign policy (and domestic counterintelligence).
That was the point. Sorry I wasn't clearer before.