a sports analogy for every occasion

[rone]

Israel's like the obnoxious Yankees fan who insisted on moving to Boston because he can trace his ancestry all the way back to Plymouth Rock, then attends every Red Sox game at Fenway Park drunk to the gills, where he loudly taunts the locals about the Babe Ruth trade, Bucky Dent, Bill Buckner, Aaron Boone, and the Yankees' 26 championships.

And, to extend the analogy, Arab infighting is very reminiscent of the way Boston fans and media venemously argue over what the team should be doing next. And in the end, the Yankees and the Red Sox get way more notoriety than they deserve.

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I don't think the government granted them casino licenses as much as granted them sovereignty and didn't back down on that grant when they created a venue for something the government has outlawed as vice. The reasons for which indian reservations are not hotbeds of prostition, drug production and slavery are, one presumes, reasons of the Indians alone. (And their desire not to put test to the circumstances of their existence.)

Heck, in the case of slavery, we might be compelled to act regardless of Indian sovereignty. In that respect, some moderation is its own act of self-preservation.