Boehner's Faux Pas. Or Is It Fox Paw?

       I've been thinking about the invitation to Benjamin Netanyahu to come and speak to our Congress. Especially right before Israel's elections. Hey, he could very possibly lose this election. Which has to be the main reason for coming over here to speak to our Congress. Well, that and the fact that he would prefer us to go to war with Iran instead of working out some sort of treaty that would allow us to keep closer track of them and require them to get rid of their ability to build atomic bombs.
       I suppose we should look at his history on middle-east war. In 2002 he suggested that war with Iraq would create "enormous positive reverberations" in the middle-east. Well, it did create enormous reverberations in the middle-east, but I'm not sure you could call them positive. He seems to be convinced that having America go to war with another middle-eastern country would be a good thing and preferable to a peaceful "diplomatic solution."
       Now in spite of Mr. Netanyahu's aversion to negotiations and diplomatic solutions, perhaps the answer to his appearance in our Congress would be, not to dis-invite him, but to invite his main opponent in the upcoming elections to also come over here and to speak to our Congress. After all, if we're to have a foreign country tell us what to do, then shouldn't we make every effort to be certain the directions we take are those of the foreign country as a whole?
        Is Mr. Netanyahu's position the majority opinion in Israel? In spite of Speaker John Boehner's assurances, we won't know the answer to that question until a couple of weeks after he speaks. Another question arising from this fiasco is, will Speaker Boehner be invited to speak to the Knesset? Will he be able to assure them our government will do as it is told by Israel? Well, let's invite the other candidate to speak. Then we'll have an answer, or not.