“So the United States regains its posture and its reputation and a little bit of good will. But Israel’s still there.

“We achieve some measure of energy independence and we learn how to use a little less oil. But Israel’s still there.

“The memory of a war badly executed recedes into the past. But Israel’s still very much there.”

The punch-line says it all:

“All of which makes you wonder what on earth all the critics of the war—ranging from radical Democrat John Murtha to radical Republican Ron Paul, and everybody else in between—would suggest we do about what may be the most critical issue of all: Are they really suggesting that Israel is expendable?”

-Turretinfan

With Saddam gone, Iraqi Christians are now being persecuted, kidnapped, and slaughtered wholesale.

The neo-cons don’t care about this, of course. That Christians had a significant political presence in Iraq probably only added to their hatred of Iraq.

But what can the Christian Right say for itself?

The article also exposes how even pundits, who supposedly are paid to help us think, cannot even grasp simple syntax (i.e. Ron Paul’s statement in the debate) if it goes contrary to the regnant paradigm.

I like the ideas here and yes we need a reintroduction to the history in this region. We have to remember that these states were created via ww1 and ww2 by the zion brits, the french and yes the americans to stem the ottoman turks and nazi germany. that less than 70-80 years ago these guys where riding camels over the very area that is now a petroleum hot spot. the princes,kings and what have you were placed in power by the brits,french,us because of the work against the axis powers. also hussein should have learned after the fall of the shah and noriega in panama and marcos in philipines that if he strayed too far off the map he would be next. we taught & supplied the afgahans when the soviets invaded then left them high and dry.a lot of the boundary lines drawn by the UN posed real problems with different groups like the Kurds also leaving them without aide.like the ottomans and possibly germany all that have ventured here only cared for the fuel to run the industrial machine that the west has created. it’s also interesting in that the “rise of Islam” was spoken and written of by a few guys in the west, two being Walter Martin and another Robert Morrey and i think there were some others, but these had a more Dispy view, in the eary 90s. I find it ironic that we trust India with nukes not long after they and Pakistan threaten to blow each other up because of Kashmir and other “regions of dispute”.

s. e. hoffmeister
p.s. remember lawrence of arabia