May 9, 2006
WHAT WOULDN'T YOU GIVE FOR THE REYNOLDS WRAP CONCESSION AT THEIR EDITORIAL OFFICES?:
Washington’s Next Military
Crusade Is Beckoning (Amr Ismail, 09 May, 2006, Leadaship.com)
Washington’s hegemonic strategy made it the chief adversary of social progress, peace and democracy. Contradictions of America’s capitalism are getting sharper, and the language of force and total destruction is hardly absent from delivered statements by White House officials and some members of congress. Can we justifiably signal Israel for using the US as proxy for war and for its chief role in manipulating the American public?Posted by Orrin Judd at May 9, 2006 8:26 AMThere is a great sense of anticipation for what could transpire following the recent publication of “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy” – an academic paper by two Harvard professors. What prompts John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt to come forward with their discussion on The Israel lobby and US foreign policy is likely their well deserved conviction that the Project of The American Century is not in the interest of the United States, and that the entire premise of a prolonged series of current and coming wars, interventions and nation building falls back on only one justification – securing Israel’s realm as advanced by AIPAC and other loosely coupled lobbying organizations on behalf of the tiny nation. The authors didn’t deny Christian Zionists’ their due credit and contribution.
"...two Harvard professors."
And that's about as accurate as it gets.
(Just another Arab intellectual doing his thang.)
Posted by: Barry Meislin at May 9, 2006 8:32 AM"Leadaship?" To where? Water?
Posted by: Mike Beversluis at May 9, 2006 9:17 AMYou can leadaship to water, but you can't make them drink.
Posted by: AllenS at May 9, 2006 10:27 AMYou can lead these whores to water, but you sure aren't going to make them think (apologies to Dorothy Parker).
Posted by: ratbert at May 9, 2006 10:40 AMThey have this exactly backwards. We use Israel.
Having Israel as a pretext for hegemony is one one of the best moves we have ever made, and we have made some great ones.
We never could have pursued a realistic Middle East policy all these years without it.
Posted by: Lou Gots at May 9, 2006 12:30 PM