Conservatives like myself have been saying since the beginning of the Warmongering that the Iraq War will not be in America's interests. Unlike some of our friends on the left, we don't oppose this war because we hate America, we do it because we love America.
But if the war is not in America's interests, then in whose is it?
Buchanan has a thick skin, so he lays it all on the line in this article. The war is in Israel's interests. Elsewhere I've called Raimondo's similar account attractive. It is, because it makes so much damn sense. Israel's interests and America's interests diverge past the point of enforcing their 1967 borders. Yet we have men in our government with allegiances to this foreign power.
The reason we hesitate from this theory is that no one wants to be called an anti-semite. Criticize someone who happens to be of Jewish ethnicity, and you are an anti-semite. Point out that men in our government have allegiance to a foreign power, when that foreign power happens to be Israel, and therefore the men happen to be ethnic Jews, well, then, be prepared to be compared with Hitler.
But before we allow the neocons to play the race card and divert real criticism, let's ask ourselves: if a foreign power other than Israel was directing US policy in a similar fashion, would there be charges of racism? Would the race card be playable if US foreign policy had stopped serving American interests and instead was serving those of Russia, and a group of dual-citizen, ethnic Russians, with business and personal ties in Russia, were directing foreign policy? Would we cease discussion of this problem for fear of being called an anti-Russian racist?
Or would we be smarter than that?
