And We Wonder Why Nothing Changes.
For news and analysis that dare not be reported in U.S. mainstream media, we must turn to a world press less beholden to toeing the Israel-first line. The latest clear-eyed analysis comes from Asia Times.
"Republican presidential candidate McCain is opening this year's AIPAC jamboree; Clinton and Obama are closing it on Wednesday." reports the Asia Times piece.
"Take what Clinton said in February at an AIPAC meeting in New York: ‘Israel is a beacon of what's right in a neighborhood overshadowed by the wrongs of radicalism, extremism, despotism and terrorism.’ A year before, Clinton was in favor of sitting and talking to Iran's leadership." relates the piece.
"And take what Obama said in March at an AIPAC meeting in Chicago; no reference at all to Palestinian ‘suffering’, as he had done on the campaign trail in March 2007. Obama also made it clear he would do nothing to alter the US-Israeli relationship."
So much for Change You Can Believe In.
Expect cursory attention at best from the servile U.S. media on this stomach-turning spectacle of power politics and influence in a U.S. election by the major special interest arm of a foreign government. And expect no "Special Comment" from our frothing Liberal Rush Limbaugh on this travesty that so screams out for one.
And we sit here and wonder why nothing changes, and why young American children continue to die in Iraq.