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Entry: The Kissinger Connection Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_kissinger_connection#1151 Post contents: However culpable the Neoconservative cabal may be, blaming Israel and Jews for all of the U.S. Government's foreign policy ills smacks of an effort to avoid responsibility and shift blame with that flimsiest of all excuses, "The Devil made me do it." Clearly, our our government, our nation, indeed human civilization faces serious challenges. The more useful responses may be spiritual, based on a willingness to accept and shoulder responsibility rather than on efforts to assign blame. I'm reminded of the final paragraphs of Wendell Berry's elegant essay, "Tuscany", and his warning that, "It is understandable that we should have reacted to the attacks of September 11, 2001 by curtailment of civil rights, by defiance of laws, and by resort to overwhelming force, for those actions are the ready products of fear and hasty thought. But they cannot protect us against the destruction of our own land by ourselves. They cannot protect us against the selfishness, wastefulness, and greed that we have legitimized here as an economic virtue, and have taught to the world." Sent at: 2008 05 16