Re: Jews who support a U.S. war against Iraq should think again. If the war "goes bad," with too many U.S. casualties and not enough rapid victory, the finger of blame could well point at the U.S. Jewish community. That may be unfair,...
Indeed, it'd be unfair inasmuch as blind support of Israel is mainly an Evangelical fantasy in the US... Of course, for a former KKK leader and a Protestant like David Duke to split the blame fairly between the Jews and his fellow WASPs might prove to demanding. As I said several years ago(*), unlike European Zionism, US arch-Zionism is not a Jewish thing: it's a basic tenet shared by 100 million Evangelicals (according to Andrew Bacevich's estimate).
Re: If a war in Iraq "goes bad," though, the truth will not matter. Americans will look for scapegoats, and the organized Jewish community may be near the head of the line.
And the irony here will be that the most frustrated Americans looking for scapegoats will very likely be... the Evangelicals! That is, the very people who used to be so fanatically "fond" of God's Chosen People will turn against their object of praise --as we say in French, Bruler ce qu'on a adoré.... Talk about a wry backlash, eh?
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Further reading:
Skipping Towards Armageddon : The Politics and Propaganda of the Left Behind Novels and the LaHaye Empire (Paperback)
by Michael Standaert
amazon.com
American Theocracy : The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21stCentury (Hardcover)
by Kevin Phillips
amazon.com |
