but I also think
> people who aren't willing to live in a place may well be more willing to
> inflict more violence upon it -- who wouldn't prefer that train stations
> were exploding elsewhere? And that these kinds of relationships raise
> questions about the many nostalgic nationalisms that afflict the American
> immigrant middle-class. And OK, leaving aside the IRA, isn't it
interesting
> that most of the foreign struggles the middle-class is attracted to are
> reactionary and racist?
>
> Liza
There is actually a joke about this among the New York intellectuals. Norman Podhoretz (or someone of his ilk) said, "when it comes to Israeli politics I belong to the war party." To which someone responded, "Sure, Israel will fight the war and you'll throw the party."