Cordell, Arthur: ECOM wrote:
Chris,
I won't get "into it" with you again. Just this one rebuttal of the
Mearsheimer/Walt article.
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Israel Lobby
By Ruth R. Wisse
1037 words
22 March 2006
The Wall Street Journal
A16
English
In Boston in the early 1980s, I was asked by an Irish cab driver what language I had been speaking with a fellow passenger we had just dropped off. When I told him, Hebrew, the language of Israel, the man exclaimed: "Israel! That's America's fighting front line! Israel fights our battles better than we could fight them ourselves."
If Israel is fighting "our" battles, I do seem to recall that
at a very low cost they put a big dent in Saddam Hussein's WMD
aspirations by bombing his nuclear reactor. Would that Dubya had done
anywhere near as well -- Dubya couldn't even maintain what he was given (the
no-fly zones and on the ground inspections).
In general, however, Israel seems to me a topic which it is inadvisable to
talk about -- like Galileo, let's keep our noses to measuring the
time-sequence motion of balls rolling down inclined planes (or
the motions of sub-atomic particles and the distortions of
"gravitational" lenses in outer space) and leave
the organization of the social world to the established powers, lest
our personal wellbeing suffer.
\brad mccormick
--
Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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