It all points to a major pull-back, probably sooner rather than later, I in America's role in the world.
There can be no restoration of the American economy, even marginally, without an end to this country's decades-long obsession with militarism. The US spends more on its military--a trillion dollars a year counting veterans benefits and interest on the borrowed money) than the rest of the world combined. That situation cannot continue, for objective reasons even aside from the moral ones.
When the public finally realizes this, the politicians will have to respond, and we will see a dramatic shrinking of the military budget and of America's militarism abroad.
At that point, Israel will have to face the music, and either settle with the Palestinians, or try to soldier on on its own (and good luck to that).
It would make much more sense for Israel, which still has solid, if
shrinking, public US support, to work out a permanent solution through the creation of a genuinely viable Palestinian state, right now, than to wait until such a solution is forced on it when it is in a much weaker bargaining position.
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DAVE LINDORFF is a Philadelphia-based journalist and columnist. His latest book is “The Case for Impeachment” (St. Martin’s Press, 2006, available now in paperback edition). His work is available at www.thiscantbehappening.net
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