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I’m in a good place.

Yours,

Barry

Barack H. Obama

3 November 2010

Netanyahu:

The Intellectual Father of the “War on Terror”

Writing last week on Antiwar.com the redoubtable Phil Giraldi said:

“The Israel connection is significant because Israel has long been at the heart of America’s foreign policy woes. America’s misguided war on terror is in fact a complete adoption of Israeli security paradigms without any regard for the actual threats that confront the US, making Israel’s many enemies also the foes of Washington. The Israeli Lobby might not have single handedly brought about the disastrous Iraq war but it certainly was a major factor in the push to invade, taking its cues from the Israeli Foreign Ministry.”

Reading Giraldi’s article I thought back, as I have intermittently through the years, to a late night in 1995 when, after a long day’s work, I sat down to watch the Charlie Rose Show in the hopes of getting smarter. Back then, I had not yet realized just how bought-and-paid-for Charlie is (Bloomberg, Sumner Redstone and a long etc. of media magnates underwrite his program) and thus incapable of considering ideas that challenge in any substantial way the notion that the US and Israel are anything but positive factors on the world stage.