The Supreme Court’s stunning rebuke of Bush’s war-trials procedure makes you wonder in what other ways the war on terrorism has transformed our values. Here is another thing to reflect on:
In a full-page ad in tomorrow’s Times that questions America’s one-sided policy in Israel/Palestine, the Council for the National Interest (yes: bland name for a pro-Palestinian group) argues that the over-identification of American interests with Israel’s has led us “into mimicking in Iraq Israel’s military and targeted assassination approach to counterinsurgency, which has severely complicated U.S. efforts to deal with worldwide terrorism.”
It’s a good point. Yes we got the evil Zarqawi, but we also killed a woman and child in that house, as I recall. How many innocents died for us to get Uday and Qusay? Is this actually productive, or will it enmesh us in the same sort of cycle of violence that Israel has found itself in over 60 years, a cycle that brutalizes all parties?
well yes, Phil, this has always been the way of Jewish leaderships throughout history, to offer an elaborate emotive justification (I will not call it 'moral') for doing what empires most like to do anyway, which is cast all restraint to the winds and become utterly tyrannical.
However, when the leather-bound Semite enters and overcomes me from the rear and then pollutes me, neither the stalinist paradigm of might versus right can full explain my jiggy feeling throughout.
The man-size of the Jewish Semite is such that when accepted up my rear end, tingles me.
The hubris of that Semite (and he knows who he is) to regularly penetrate sans lubrication is the categorical control that sustains the polemic.
What about the 43,000 other civilians killed in "regular" offensives? Did the US learn that and the rapes, torture and murder from Israel too?
http://www.iraqbodycount.net/
A Palestinian "think tank" is not the best place for strategic advice. What do they recommend, suicide bombings by women and children?
one kind of wishes one could copyright one's name here.
incidentally, if the above attempts at humour are based on the Frankfurt School hypothesis that there is some unconscious relationship between 'antisemitism' and 'homophobia', let me state that I have found no eveidence at all for this idea, and consider it to be untrue, like most or all Frankfurt School hypotheses regarding political psychology. What is true, however, is that Jews like to instrumentalise the 'struggles' of 'minorities' such as 'gays'. I hope you all appreciate my use of 'scare quotes' around every term I consider to be in itself intentionally misleading jargon.