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07/29/2008: "The "Israeli" lobby of globalist imperialists has gradually taken over from the old WASP ruling class in America"
The old WASP ruling class evoked by Leupp, which consisted of the captains of industry and a substantial upper-middle class employed in the private sector, is on the way out, and has been for quite some time. What's rising, especially in the past eight years, is a new and uniquely rapacious elite, one whose loyalties to the country are by no means certain. Their allegiance is to the Empire, and its expansion, no matter what the price - a price, in any case, that will not be personally paid by them.
The left treats imperialism as the logical outgrowth of capitalism, but what we are seeing instead is the destruction of functioning markets as a direct consequence of imperialist policies - a reality that bothers our aspiring elite not in the least. Given the experience of the past eight years - and the prospect of worse yet to come - the leftist analysis of imperialism as merely capitalism gone wild is giving way to a more nuanced psychological critique, one that sees power-worship rather than money-worship as the energizing factor that keeps the motor of Empire humming.
In short, this neo-Marxist analysis of attributing our aggressive foreign policy to a plot by top-hatted capitalists is a caricature out of some crude cartoon in the old Daily Worker of the 1930s - on a date sometime before the end of the Hitler-Stalin Pact and the Nazi attack on the Soviet Union. Today, it flies directly in the face of the facts, and explains nothing. It leaves out, for example, the key role played by the Israel lobby in getting to where we are today - occupying Iraq, and on the brink of war with Iran.
[ This "Israeli" lobby does not represent all Jews/Israelis and is ultimately going to lead to the very destruction of Israel if it carries on as at present. Essentially it is driven by a power-hungry minority of psychopathic selfish individuals and does not represent a sensible policy for the well-being of Israelis as a whole. The LNSG advocates that the "Israeli" lobby must stop it's internationalist interference, and it's aggressiveness towards Israel's neighbors and that all Jews should go to live in peace in Israel. ]
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13213