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Israel Makes Its ‘Clean Break’

…..Israel had morphed the attacks on Gaza and the odd buzzing of Damascus into a full-scale assault into Lebanon, and escalated her military threats to Syria…..Justin Raimondo, as usual, is prescient and correct. “A Clean Break: Strategy for Securing the [Israeli] Realm” is progressing as planned. Re-read the whole document, if you wish. It’s just an idea, a recommendation, written by a group of passionately pro-Israel Americans for a particular Likud candidate in 1996. Who knew?…..

War Pigs

Generals gathered in their masses; just like witches at Black Masses; evil minds that plot destruction; sorcerers of war’s construction…..

The next war?

Why risk it? Stopping Islamism, oil, short-term domestic politics, and Iranian regime change, in that order. With their PNAC dreams of remaking the Middle East, it just might be too much of a honey pot for Bush’s hawkish neo-cons to resist. The only minor complication is that such an imbroglio is not only by definition unwinnable, but is likely to be disastrous — to the point where it could end America’s status as a global superpower. (Which might well be a good thing, but for the horrific loss of mostly civilian life it would entail.)…..

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