With each passing day, I find myself more and more perplexed by those who claim to love Israel and yet align themselves with the political left. This day is no exception. From Grand Moff Texan over at DailyKos:

Israel is not my problem. Unlike these fringe radicals on the right who put another country first, I can go entire days without thinking about Israel at all. I'm interested in my own contry's priorities, and those are enough of a mess. The US no longer needs Israel to force a Soviet Union that doesn't exist anymore to exhaust itself in the region. The Cold War utility of Israel has been defunct for over a decade, but the think tank hacks who justified it for a generation (largely by calling everyone "anti-semites") didn't want to have to get real jobs. So why is it that the US, and by extension American academics, have to go on supporting a policy that even Israel is abandoning? Because that's the way we discipline intellectuals in the USSA. Much of the American right is still bogged down in the habits of self-deception they cultivated during the Cold War. They have created the "War on Terror" to keep themselves in power.

So, America should be a "fairweather friend" to its closest allies, to cynically use them when it suits America's interests and then drop 'em like hot rocks when they "outlive their usefulness"? Realpolitik, indeed... America should abandon its troubled friends, break all bonds of fellowship and adopt all the more efficient tactics of the Galactic Empire? There would, of course, be the requisite amount of gunfire, some bombs, rounding up, torture, death camps, mass beheadings, etc. Then again, I suppose ya can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs. There'd be big money to be made from serving up the "enemies" of our "friends." Judas Iscariot got a pitiful 30 shekels for selling out Jesus (which is, I think, something like 500 bucks in modern terms). In exchange, he lost his immortal soul. By way of contrast, we could probably stand to gain TRILLIONS (plus permanent world peace) for selling out a whole COUNTRY of Jews. So, this would be a somewhat better deal than Judas' deal. Yes, doing this would make us complete amoral whores, but the French would think we were cool...well, cooler, at least. If we play our cards right, we could be up to our noses in wine, cheese, mimes, and hot, smelly French chicks. Whaddaya say to that?

But wait, there's more!!! I have it on good authority that abandoning the Jews would immediately end all of our recent unpleasantness with al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad and the rest of them in one fell swoop. The world could return to a simpler, more peaceful time of love and harmony between all religions. I'm envisioning a warm Summer day in Vienna, the way it might have been hundreds of years ago, long before the modern Nation of Israel ever existed. The world can be just like that once again.

Thanks to LGF for the tip.

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