by robertdreed » Thu Aug 11, 2005 10:55 am
I think Cindy Sheehan is playing into the hands of people who would like nothing better than to characterize her stance as "anti-Semitic." <br><br>PNAC isn't "Israel's" grand plan for the foreign policy of the U.S.A. The majority of the the PNAC's "luminaries" aren't Jewish. If Israel didn't exist, there would still be a push for extending US bases completely around the world to girdle the globe, and ensuring that the oil fields and pipelines of the Middle East and Central Asia get added into the holdings of the Western oil consortiums. <br><br>The Great Game being played pre-exists the founding of the state of Israel. It goes back to Rhodes, Ruskin, and Mackinder..."benevolent hegemony." And if Rothschilds and Oppenheimers are in there somewhere, it's part of a symbiosis that reflects "national chauvinism" or ethnicity only coincidentally. The British Empire has always been about commercial interests, not the glory of the English people. Or, for that matter, "the Jews"...as if some 19th or 20th century shetl in, like, Lithuania, that got news of the outside world in a Hebrew paper maybe once a month in the summertime, ever comprised part of a global conspiracy... <br><br>Zionist Israel has always been allied with the Anglo-American power elite..is that any surprise?<br><br>Imagine if they said "no." Would their Arab neighbors allow Israel to ally in regional solidarity, against Western incursions? Well, anyway, the question is laughable...<br><br>I'm frankly pro-Western. I think our political institutions are superior. I also think that swinging the wrecking ball is the exact wrong way to initiate other societies into the benefits of our way of life. I suspect a lot of Israelis feel the same way. But...it's like Americans- are they all guilty, because of what their governments decide despite their wishes? <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p097.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=robertdreed>robertdreed</A> at: 8/11/05 10:52 am<br></i>