The True Nature of the Force

Despite the Marianan depths of my cynicism about the man, even I was a little surprised that the first thing Barry O. did after clinching the Donk conference championship was go up to AIPAC and bark like a neutered toy poodle defending its master's yard from the paperboy.

But, as such internetsian luminaries as Dennis P. and Jonathan S. (plus cobloggers) have long noted, Liberal America has always been indifferent at best to the fate of the Palestinians. How many conversations have I had in which nice, Reform-Jewish Democrats, who love the Blacks and the Gays and Feminism and Social Democracy, solemnly note that when Israelis began ejecting Palestinians . . . the Arab countries refused to take them in, as if this failure on the part of the Umma, or whomever, somehow justified the long twilight of Palestianian pseudo-peoplehood. This argument, I point out, is not unlike justifying the Third Reich on the basis of Roosevelt and Hull's refusal of The Saint Louis. Besides, I note, a substantial majority of Palestinians ejected, for example, from West Jerusalem in 1948-1949 were Christian, and in any event Palestinians were not widely considered culturally Arab in any event. To no avail.

So. Obama's first foreign policy address of the championship round of our political playoffs was dedicated to assuring one of the most war-hungry gangs in America that, far from repudiating the policies of the current administration, he will solidify and expand them (perhaps adding some of that much-bruited "competence"). This was not unpredictable. Whatever his private feelings, the Empire makes certain demands on a man. "Search your feelings, Father, you can't do this. I feel the conflict within you. Let go of your hate." "It is too late for me, son. The Emperor will show you the true nature of the Force. He is your master now."