Well, duh. Rabbi wasn't talking about that term by itself.
The National Review blog used the term "amen corner." ("The Vatican's Amen corner.")
It isn't anti-Semitic to refer to an "amen corner," even a "neocon amen corner."
That's just your active imagination.
Last poll I checked, most Jews oppose Iraq War II. Usually I'd give you the cite, but it's kinda late here, and I'm tired. (If someone can prove me wrong here, go ahead.) My point is that I don't think that Iraq War I or Iraq War II were "wars for Israel" or the result of some kind of Jewish plot. For cryin' out loud, I shouldn't even have to say this. I'm am kinda tired of anti-Semitism being used as a club to shut down criticism of US foreign policy, especially in the Middle East. Wait, does that make me an "anti-Semite"? (I oppose foreign aid to Ireland. Guess I'm anti-Catholic, except that I oppose foreign aid to any and everyone. Guess I just hate everyone.)
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Did you hear the one about the rabbi who walks into a psychiatrist's office? The doc administers a
Rorschach inkblot test.
Doc: "What do you see in this one?"
Rabbi: "That's a picture of an anti-Semite."
Doc: "OK, let's go on to the next one. What do you see in this one?"
Rabbi: "That's a picture of a Jew being mistreated by an anti-Semite."
Doc: "What about this one?"
Rabbi: "That's a picture of Pat Buchanan going on about Jews."
Doc: "You seem kinda fixated on anti-Semitism."
Rabbi: "Me fixated? You're the one with all these anti-Semitic pictures!"
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Then I dont know what your argument is.
Yours is apparently something like "kill as many Arabs as you have to until they submit." They're all just "vermin," "cockroaches" and and "two-legged beasts," right? Just need to go in there and clean out those "nests of terrorists." Buncha [uel=http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0521-08.htm]"hajis,"[/url]
"ragheads," and
sand niggers," right? Those are the terms commonly used by US soldiers and officers stationed in Iraq to dehumanize the "enemy." Once you believe that the people you are stomping are only
Untermenschen, then you can more easily slaughter them and rape their 14-year old daughters.
Here's an argument for you: Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Rice are war criminals who practice deceit every time they open their mouths. How's that? Clear enough for you?
President William McKinley explained to the ladies of Methodist Missionary Society how he decided that the United States should conquer the Philippines in 1900.
"I went down on my knees and prayed Almighty God...and one night late it came to me this way...there was nothing left for us to do but to take them all...and Christianize them." 100 years ago we claimed to be spreading "Christianity" as we extended our empire; today we claim to be spreading "democracy" and "freedom" as we extend our empire. The US is building a dozen permanent bases in Iraq. It doesn't matter how the elections go in 2006 or 2008; the US fgedgov has no intention of leaving Iraq. Ever.
What was our exit strategy in Germany post 1945?
Last I checked, we never exited.
What was our exit strategy in any small war we've ever fought?
Mostly we don't exit. We plant the flag and stay. Even if our troops leave, our spies and diplomats stay behind to ensure continued US hegemony. Every once in a while the US or its puppet regime is forced out by the locals (Iran, Nicaragua), or US political leadership calculates that the costs of staying supercede the benefit of continued war (Vietnam). Very rare, but it has happened.
The US prefers to rule behind the scenes, but wont flinch at sponsoring a bloodbath if policy demands it. They'll send out press releases, and the war mongers on FOX will stand up and applaud.
What would "victory" look like?
Before the invasion, the National Intelligence Council "predicted that an American-led invasion of Iraq would increase support for political Islam and would result in a deeply divided Iraqi society prone to violent internal conflict." A CIA report of May 2005 confirmed that "Iraq has become a magnet for Islamic militants similar to Soviet-occupied Afghanistan two decades ago and Bosnia in the 1990s." The CIA concluded that "Iraq may prove to be an even more effective training ground for Islamic extremists than Afghanistan was in Al Qaeda's early days, because it is serving as a real-world laboratory for urban combat."
There is little doubt that the US invasion of Iraq had the effect of "greatly strengthening the popular appeal of anti-democratic radicals such as those Al Qaeda and other
jihadi salafis" throughout the Muslim world. Take a look at Indonesia. In 2, 75 percent of Indonesians viewed Americans favorabl. Thsi number fell to 61 percent by 2002 and 15 percent after the invasion of Iraq, with 80 percent saying that they feared an attack by the United States. These sentiments correlate with greater readiness for Islam to play a broader role in public life, and tolerance of and cooperation with Islamic radicals.
Heckuva job, Bush.