> In the words of William Jefferson Clinton, it all depends on what you mean
> by burden.
Number of American lives or simply money? By what metric isn't it a burden?
By Dubya's armageddonist backwardedness or in terms of armaments shareholder
profits?
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The WSJ wrote:
> the man exclaimed: "Israel! That's America's fighting front line!
> Israel fights our battles better than we could fight them ourselves."
Yep, especially on the USS Liberty...
THAT must be why Israel invaded Iraq for the US, not the other way around.
> and a large network of accomplices including (they will learn to their
> surprise) The Wall Street Journal
^^^^^^^^
Why surprise? This WSJ article confirms the accusation.
> Organized as a prosecutorial indictment rather than an inquiry, the essay
> does not tell us why the "Israel Lobby" should have formed in the first place.
There's no need to, because that's obvious. And why do they use ""s? The
Lobby itself admits its existence... As in "Jewish organizations, in the
lead of a loose coalition of nonprofit groups, moved to block the reforms
on travel, arguing that one of their most effective lobbying tools has been
privately sponsored trips to Israel for lawmakers. Israel is the number one
foreign destination of privately funded congressional trips, and the
American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Washington's powerful pro-Israel
lobby, is the second largest underwriter of such overseas travel. ...
During the period surveyed, Israel was the foremost destination for such
travel, accounting for 164 out of 1,922 privately funded trips overseas by
members of Congress."
("Pro-Israel Activists Block Travel Reform",
http://www.forward.com/main/article.php?ref=nir20060315955 )
> In fact, unlike neighboring Arab countries, Israeli citizenship is not
> conditional on religion or race.
So I can move to Israel and get naturalized there? The WSJ must be kidding.
> But he and Walt-Mearsheimer have it backwards: Americans don't support
> Israel because of the strength of any lobby; Israel earns American support
> the hard way, for the very reasons the Boston cabbie cited several decades
> ago.
Yep, that's why the non-existent lobby has to fund "educational" trips to
Israel for US Senators by the million... After all, only in Israel can
US Senators learn how to stop terrorism (as the shining example shows).
And only in the WSJ can we learn that a 1980s Boston cabbie understood this
issue better than a 2006 Harvard Professor of International Affairs does.
But that's quite consistent with having this review written by...
> Ms. Wisse is the Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and
> professor of comparative literature at Harvard.
Pretty telling that the WSJ found no less partial US writer (nor even an
expert in Int'l Affairs) for that review. Next thing you know they'll
have cabbies write their economics articles. (Would make more sense BTW.)
Chris
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