[lbo-talk] Chomsky: Israel Lobby ?

[Carl Remick]

>From: "Jerry Monaco" <monacojerry at gmail.com>
>
>"Whatever cold war strategic value the aircraft carrier USS Israel had is
>long gone.  Israel is
>an expensive strategic liability to the US now, a valueless burden at a 
>time
>that the US should be buddying up to the Islamic states that control the 
>oil
>the US desperately needs."
>
>I don't get it! What does the cold war have to do with it?
>
>The strategic value of Israel was the same before and after the Cold War.

Nope.  Israel was useful to the US when the USSR was the destabilizing 
presence in the Mideast.  Now that nuclear-tipped Israel itself is the 
destablizing presence there, its value to the US is zilch.

Carl