Saturday, May 05, 2012
Finished reading the Israel Lobby
This irritated the crap out of me when I read it:
Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.
Moshe Dayan
Read more:http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/moshe_dayan.html#ixzz1p8rCO6lg
Moshe Dayan
Read more:http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/moshe_dayan.html#ixzz1p8rCO6lg
And in the concluding chapter the authors state "It would probably take a bevy of Jack Abramoff-style scandals to convince Americans to purge private money from the electoral process. In the short term, trying to weaken the lobby dircetly is not going to work."
My question as I read that was "Which Americans need convincing of that, the ones who wield the most influence now? The wealthy ones)"
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