Re: America Held Hostage
On Jul 21, 2006, at 11:11 AM, Carl Remick wrote:
If there is a scintilla of good news from the Lebanon horror, it is
that no rational being can continue to deny the Israel lobby’s
awesome sway — aided, of course, by the supreme tractability of
the American people. I just read a post here by Jerry Monaco
taking Wojtek to task for comparing people in general to sheep. I
agree that this is an unfair comparison, since in the case of
Americans it is quite insulting to sheep. Sheep at least have some
volitional capacity; USers seem to have none. Presented with a
force field like the Israel lobby, Americans just line up like iron
filings in the desired pattern.
Uh, no, the U.S. pop’s support for Israel is much more positive than
that. As Pew reported the other day, more than a third (36%) of
Americans think supporting Israel will lubricate the Second Coming.
There’s also a substantial identification with a religiously driven
settler state that sees itself as a light unto the world. That’s a
lot more volitional than sheep.
Doug