Letters to the Editor
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The Missing Question
... On the purpose for which the [group] is organized -- support of our ally Israel and opposition to extremist regimes that threaten both Israel and the United States -- I don't have any regrets about it.
And right after that should have been
So it doesn't matter to you why they support Israel -- even if what they hope to see for Israel is an escalating spiral of violence and continued regional warfare, you're still with them?
But it wasn't, because to ask that question would be to expose the unholy madness that festers at the heart of the alliance between the American and Israeli right. We might begin to discuss whether there is a limit to what the US should sacrifice to placate that seemingly unimpeachable minority of Israelis who would rather see Arab corpses and a world in flames than accept any part of their responsibility for peace.
But that's not what "independent" Joe Lieberman wants to talk about. Anything, in fact, but that.