Phil > it surely seems to me we are rushing into an unavoidable collision course between two intransigent opposites.
It certainly seems like that. The deciding factor I would imagine is the appetite the US has for more war and, indeed, how much more the US is prepared to compromise its own interests, particularly in Iraq, for that of Israel's "security". As we discussed the other day, the Shiites are the dominant group in Iraq and the US requires Iran's tacit goodwill to see that democracy under a Shiite dominated government can succeed. Israel, of course, would be glad if there was civil war in Iraq and so at this point the interests of the two nations do not coincide.
Here's a piece which, incidentally, I posted elsewhere and which indicates that all may not be such smooth sailing for Israel's influence on the US in future.
rebelion.org
>>Along with the arrest of Libby by the Federal Prosecutor, the FBI has arrested the two leading policy makers of the most influential pro-Israeli lobby (AIPEC) for spying for the State of Israel. These are not simply isolated actions by individual officials or investigators. To have proceeded against powerful Zioncon leader Irving Libby and AIPEC leaders (Rosen and Weissman), they had to have powerful institutional backing; otherwise the investigations would have been terminated even before they began.
The CIA is deeply offended by the Zioncon usurpation of their intelligence role, their direct channels to the President, their prime loyalty to the State of Israel and their ignorance of reliable sources. The military is extremely angry at their exclusion from the councils of government over questions of war, the disastrous war policy which have depleted the armed forces of recruits, devastated troop morale, and the Zioncons grotesque ignorance of the costs of a colonial occupation. It is no wonder that General Tommy Frank referred to Zioncon Douglas Feith as “the stupidest bastard I have ever met.”<<
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