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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas M. who wrote (4299)	2/19/2004 4:27:14 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 22250

Re: To the neocons, however, Zionism is second nature. They cannot conceive of a foreign policy that is good for America that does not entail absolute solidarity with Israel. They are dangerously close to imbibing the poisonous brew that drove Jonathan Pollard to treason: If it is good for Israel, it cannot be bad for America. To evade admission of the transparent truth, neocons have begun to rationalize their passionate attachment, to sublimate it. "The Arab-Israeli quarrel is not a cause of Islamic extremism," Frum and Perle protest. But when every returning journalist and diplomat and every opinion survey says it is America's uncritical support for Israeli repression of the Palestinians that makes us hated in the region, how can honest men write this? Have they blinded themselves to the truth because it is too painful? We stand by Israel, writes Irving Kristol, because America is an "ideological" nation, "like the Soviet Union of yesteryear." We and Israel are democracies, the Arab countries are not, and that is all there is to it. That is why it was in our national interest to come to the defense of France and Britain in World War II. That is why we feel it necessary to defend Israel today, when its survival is threatened. No complicated geopolitical calculations of national interest are necessary. But this is nonsense, and Kristol knows it. ...hence "neocon" is a misnomer, and everybody ought to know it --judeocon is the proper term.

To: Thomas M. who wrote (4299)	2/19/2004 4:43:38 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 22250

Re: Is the Perle-Frum vision for the suffering people of North Korea a future of freedom and democracy? Not exactly: It may be that the only way out of the decade-long crisis on the Korean peninsula is the toppling of Kim Jong Il and his replacement by a North Korean communist who is more subservient to China. If so, we should accept that outcome. Swell. America is to fight a second Korean War that could entail a nuclear strike on our troops, but, when we have won, we should accept a communist North Korea that is a vassal of Beijing. How many dead and wounded are our AEI warlords willing to accept to make Pyongyang a puppet of Beijing? The above excerpt somehow endorses my own opinion that, outside and beyond the Muslim-Judeo-Christian squall-line, Judeocons are purposeless... Their whole monomaniacal agenda revolves around Israel and her Muslim foes. After all, that's why they'll never be as despondent toward Iraq as they seemingly are toward North Korea --I mean, Judeocons will never say that... ...it may be that the only way out of the decade-long crisis in the Middle East is the toppling of Saddam Hussein and his replacement by an Iraqi Shi'ite who is more subservient to Iran. If so, we should accept that outcome. The Judeocons' double standard vis-a-vis North Korea betrays their Israeli monomania. Gus

To: Thomas M. who wrote (4299)	2/19/2004 5:00:23 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 22250

Re: But of all our mistakes, probably the most serious was our unwillingness to allow the Iraqi National Congress, Iraq's leading anti-Saddam resistance movement, to form a provisional government after the fall of Baghdad. In 1944, we took care to let French troops enter Paris before U.S. or British forces. We should have shown equal tact in 2003. Thus, we are in trouble because Ahmad Chalabi was not allowed to play de Gaulle leading his war-weary, battle-hardened Free Iraqis into Baghdad. LOL... That would have been as ludicrous as for Hitler to ask Maréchal Pétain to strut along French troops on their way to "liberate" Paris in September 1940... before General Guderian's Panzer divisions barged in. Gus