Neocon Ira Stoll, writing in the Daily News, claims Lincoln for Israel. He says that Hamas has perpetrated the equivalent of slavery and the only way to fight slavery is to destroy it. He, and Cynthia Ozick too, is upset about a new Jimmy Carter book saying that the Civil War could have been averted, and that Lincoln became deluded by messianic ideas when there were better ways to end slavery than war.
My friend Jack Ross seizes on this and writes, "Put this in your Lincoln kick and smoke it."
Beyond the obvious, two points come to mind:
1) Has it really completely slipped my mind to point out in this whole discussion what Lincoln is for the neocons and especially the Straussians, that is, an example to be invoked for any and all atrocities to be committed in a war fought for progress?
2) What, ultimately, is the difference between Lincoln's mythical "Union" and Herzl's mythical "Jewish people"?
[read the full article…]1) Has it really completely slipped my mind to point out in this whole discussion what Lincoln is for the neocons and especially the Straussians, that is, an example to be invoked for any and all atrocities to be committed in a war fought for progress?
2) What, ultimately, is the difference between Lincoln's mythical "Union" and Herzl's mythical "Jewish people"?
{ Comments on this entry are closed }
