Guno צְבִי
We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
Those who were against the U.S. invasion of Iraq tendentiously blamed it on “the neocons.” This was code for “the Jews,” because a number of influential “neocon” analysts who supported the war happened to be Jewish.
The false claim that Israel had taken America to war in Iraq became a common meme on both sides of the Atlantic. In 2004, Thomas Friedman wrote that Ariel Sharon, then Israel’s prime minister, had President George W. Bush “under house arrest in the Oval Office.”
In London, a British colonel told me that “Ariel Sharon has his hand up Bush’s back”—and was astonished when I replied that Israel had told the United States it was Iran, not Iraq, that posed the greatest danger.
The disastrous course of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, which were generally viewed as a lethal quagmire, turned the West in general against getting involved in any future wars, particularly those in the Middle East.
Opponents of the war against Iran are now re-running the Iraq war memes, with the charge that now-mythical “neocons” are driving President Donald Trump into yet another “forever war” with American “boots on the ground” as U.S. forces die for a cause “in a faraway country.”
The false claim that Israel had taken America to war in Iraq became a common meme on both sides of the Atlantic. In 2004, Thomas Friedman wrote that Ariel Sharon, then Israel’s prime minister, had President George W. Bush “under house arrest in the Oval Office.”
In London, a British colonel told me that “Ariel Sharon has his hand up Bush’s back”—and was astonished when I replied that Israel had told the United States it was Iran, not Iraq, that posed the greatest danger.
The disastrous course of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, which were generally viewed as a lethal quagmire, turned the West in general against getting involved in any future wars, particularly those in the Middle East.
Opponents of the war against Iran are now re-running the Iraq war memes, with the charge that now-mythical “neocons” are driving President Donald Trump into yet another “forever war” with American “boots on the ground” as U.S. forces die for a cause “in a faraway country.”