By Barry Rubin
"Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign is now on the air with an ad that directly responds to the `3 am phone call' commercial launched by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in Texas earlier today. The commercial touts Obama's `judgment and courage’ in opposing the Iraq war from the start and his clarity to see that the war distracted the country from rooting out terrorists in Afghanistan. `In a dangerous world, it's judgment that matters,’ says the ad's narrator." -- Washington Post, February 29, 2008.
The White House. 3AM. Some time in the future.
Ring! Ring!
“Michelle, can you get that?”
“Now, Barack you know you have to answer the phone when it rings at 3AM! After all, it might be Hillary and she’d tell everyone that you were….
“Ok, ok, but remember how well I answered that ad of hers! I reminded everyone that she voted for that inevitably losing war in Iraq while I wanted to quit because I knew the war was lost. Of course, that's before I led the country to victory there….”
Ring! Ring!
“Hello? Yes, this is the president."
“It’s me, Benjamin Netanyahu."
“Bibi? Hi, old buddy, I was just telling Michelle that I really can stand you. Ha! Ha! (Winks at Michelle who rolls her eyes and goes back to sleep.) So what are you calling about at 3AM? I guess it’s 3AM in Israel, right?”
“No, Mr. President it is morning here. There's a seven-hour time difference.”
“Oh, okay. What’s up?”
“Mr. President I just wanted to tell you that our planes are about to take off and bomb Iran’s nuclear installations just as you recommended.”
“What? You’re going to bomb Iran! What gave you that idea?”
“You did, Mr. President. Let me explain. You see, Mr. President, No Israeli government can tolerate a nuclear weapon in the hands of a regime that denies the Holocaust, threatens to wipe Israel off the map and sponsors terrorist groups committed to Israel's destruction. Right?”
“That’s your view?”
“Yes, Mr. President but it’s also your view in the AIPAC speech.
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Barry Rubin is director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center and editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal. His book, Israel: An Introduction, has just been published by Yale University Press. Other recent books include The Israel-Arab Reader (seventh edition), The Long War for Freedom: The Arab Struggle for Democracy in the Middle East (Wiley), and The Truth About Syria (Palgrave-Macmillan). The website of the GLORIA Center and of his blog, Rubin Reports. His original articles are published at PJMedia.
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