Fwd: Re: [Peace-discuss] Repeating a lie ...

[C. G. Estabrook]

Yes, he has.  The point is that his politics are perfectly conventional 
for his time and place -- e.g., he supports, as all recent 
administrations have, the insistence of the US elite in maintaining 
hegemony in the ME.

The government of Israel (and AIPAC) have been instrumental in that 
policy, but I don't think that Walt and Mearsheimer are correct in 
arguing that they have misled that US elite about what its own interests 
are. (If the government of Israel were to stop serving those interests, 
it would be cast off as it was in 1956.)

How eager a President Obama would be to please AIPAC would depend on how 
closely AIPAC hewed to that policy.  Recent experience suggests it would 
be pretty close.  --CGE


Stuart Levy wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 01:41:01AM -0600, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>> You're grasping at straws.  There's no doubt he said it.
> 
> Still... Obama has said different and often conflicting things
> to different audiences.  If he's elected, will he be as eager
> to please AIPAC, for example, as he was when speaking directly to them?
> ...