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Entry: There Is a Season Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/there_is_a_season#4833 Post contents: There was an excellent article in American Conservative Magazine a few years ago, that pointed out the prior to the neo-conservative takeover of US foreign policy, the tradition goals of the US were threefold: 1) Protect Israel--justified by the holocaust; 2) Assure there is no disruption in the oil supply to the United States (dependent on foreign oil since 1970's) and 3) To Keep Europe---especially Russia---OUT (see point2) Times have changed. First Israel can take care of herself---and even it couldn't, the reality of Israel's persecution of the Palestinans is so immoral, that it overrides the holocaust argument on it's behalf. Secondly, a military occupation isn't necessary to either keep Europe out, or keep the oil pipelines flowing. The Arabs have nothing with which to sustain their people, except selling OIL. It is in their own self interest to sell the oil to us. Third, the US shouldn't be dependent on Mideast OIL in the first place. Back 25 years ago, the US should have been pursuing alternatives to oil, and building an interstate railroad system, and massive public transportation, instead of subsidizing suburbanization and sprawl and highway building. For what we are spending on the OCCUPATION of Iraq, the US government could have had a "Put a Man on the Moom" technological project to fund basic alternative energy technology---to be turned over to private enterprise to commercialize. Instead, the Conservative "Movement" has been crippled by it's idiotic "libertarian" or "laissez faire" idiocy that says the "free market" (actually no such thing) solves all the problems---ie continue to let the " OIL industry run amuck. Plus putting up with the international finance capitalists who fund the Israel Lobby, whose "Gulden" has purchased the US congress, and funded the "neo-conserative" triumph takeover of American political mainstream. It's another of the idoicies of "libertarian" utopianism is that you can have free flow of capital OUT of the USA, and have peace. Where the dollars go, the soldiers always follow. Death to "Fusionism"..the rot in Conservative Movement tjat was supposed to sustain the American Republic. Sent at: 2008 07 24