Letters to the Editor
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Don't get sidetracked
The whole neocon enterprise is a weird amalgam of personal bile, the need to worship power, and the need (by its Jewish contingent) to both completely assimilate by proving their absolute loyalty to the non-Jewish Powers that Be who run American (the idea that Jews are in control here is an absolute myth) while at the same time aggressivley asserting their Jewishness by being unyielding advocates for Israel. The brutal use of American power to smack down the Arab/Muslim world fits both needs perfectly. America gets to "stand tall' and control the global fuel pump, while Israel gets its unchallenged military mastery further enhanced without the spilling of one drop of Jewish blood. See, everybody wins! Well, not the lower-class grunts who have to fight these wars, or the middle-class taxpayer who makes a flat salary and can't hide their incomes, or the uncounted thousands of human beings over there who suffer and die under the hail or our bombs and shells. But they don't Endow Chairs at the AEI, or the Heritage Foundation, or the Council on Foreign Relations, or run this country, so the neocons could care less about them.
For those who want to pull the anti-semite card, forget it. I don't believe that Israel runs American foreign policy or Jews run America. The WASPs still do. And they support Israel because in their opinion it is in America's interest to have a "bad cop" on the beat over there so America can occaisionally pretent to be the "disinterested broker" i.e., the good cop. The neocons, Jew and Gentile, are useful idiots for the corporate/financial oligarchy, the investor class, that runs this country. Those that see this as a Jewish Conspriacy are putting the cart before the horse.