UK budget, Israel

Michael Pugliese debsian at pacbell.net
Tue Apr 23 12:22:28 PDT 2002


Subject: Re: UK budget, Israel

Brad DeLong wrote:


>It's historical memory of Auschwitz, not identification with Ariel
>Sharon, that is one of the principal drivers of U.S. policy.

The U.S. government? Really? You actually think that the senior officials of the USG care about this sort of thing, beyond PR concerns? The people who snuffed three million Indochinese and a million Iraqis?

Doug

Heh, Wolfowitz sez he does!;-) I don't doubt him... http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/22/international/22WOLF.html
>...""That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of
my views," he said. "It's a very bad thing when people exterminate other people, and people persecute minorities. It doesn't mean you can prevent every such incident in the world, but it's also a mistake to dismiss that sort of concern as merely humanitarian and not related to real interests." Michael Pugliese, http://www.neo-conwatch.comedy



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