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Flowers For Algernon

Or something.

Charlie Sausagepants, the resident neoconservative yarn-spinner at the Washington Post, wrote this today in his column titled "Isreal's Lost Moment":

America's green light for Israel to defend itself is seen as a favor to Israel. But that is a tendentious, misleadingly partial analysis. The green light -- indeed, the encouragement -- is also an act of clear self-interest. America wants, America needs, a decisive Hezbollah defeat.

See how easy that was? To Chuck it's always America=Israel, and Israel=America. He really meant "America's Lost Moment". More:

What have you done for me lately? There is fierce debate in the United States about whether, in the post-Sept. 11 world, Israel is a net asset or liability. Hezbollah's unprovoked attack on July 12 provided Israel the extraordinary opportunity to demonstrate its utility by making a major contribution to America's war on terrorism.

You could swap Israel for America in the text above and not lose any meaning, or steam, to chug Charlie's engine. They are one in the same, and by God, if the 51st State needs defending, Charlie's here to serve.

The respected Billmon snipped a different bit from Charlie's column. And I agree there too. As for me, the descendant of an original American settler, a humble Menonite Bishop, I feel I have sufficient station to tell Chuck to go fuck himself. It may come as a shock to his system, but the fact is the U.S. doesn't need Israel. For anything. Who's leading whom by the nose hairs here?

Let's check in with William Kristol from the Weekly Standard. He's the neoconservative on Fox News Sunday every week:

Anti-War, Anti-Israel, Anti-Joe

Really? So if I opposed the Iraq War, from the beginning, and I live in Connect-The-Dots, I'm Anti-Israel. Wow. That was news to me.

But at least we have a president who knows we are at war with jihadist Islam. And he is willing to stake his presidency on that fight, and to support others, like Israel, who are in the same fight.

For Charlie, and William Kristol and a host of others, Israel's emergencies are always America's. To them, action must be taken now. To wait is to "appease". Neoconservatives always view yesterday as "the lost moment", and it never matters which yesterday that might be. Ask Andrew Bacevich.

Israel shouldn't be a client state of the U.S., but it sure as fuck is, and it's about time to cut the ties. Americans piss and moan about the amount of foreign aid that goes out every year in the form of taxpayer dollars, but 3 billion a year to Israel sure isn't buying us much security. The path to peace and security for Jerusalem runs through Baghdad? I don't fucking think so...

posted by FuzzFinger @ 8/04/2006 07:26:00 PM