"Much of the unreality in U.S. attitudes toward Israel is the result of ahistorical arguments that Israel has "the right to exist". Clearly, no nation has the "right" to exist; Darwinian logic applies to nation states as well as to the other components of the animal kingdom. If there was such a right, the nations of the world would be working to resuscitate the Soviet Union, Sparta, Hannibal's Carthage, and the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. Nations exist as long as they can defend themselves, contain internal societal rot at nonfatal levels, maintain economic viability, and do not gratuitously make a constellation of more powerful enemies. This truism applies equally to all: the United States has no more right to exist than does Israel, Palestine, Bolivia, Saudi Arabia,Belgium or Russia. You form your country and you take your chances..."
Michael Scheuer, "Marching Toward Hell" p. 27