Hard to imagine?
Reader comment on item: Israeli Leftists Plead for U.S. Pressure on Their Government

Submitted by Marc Segan (United States), Dec 27, 2007 at 14:43

While I agree strongly with the rest of the article, I have to take issue with the comment 2 afterward, which says: "It is hard to imagine the intellectuals of any other state acting in like fashion."

Really? How about the U.S.? The American left (and probably the isolationist "right", if it can be called that) has expressed all kinds of wishes regarding Iraq, Iran and the GWOT in general that would likely involve the country being compelled by external forces (indeed an undemocratic wish) to change course in one way or another. Whether it's the UN, the EU, our enemies for that matter -- we've all heard their hopes for America to get its comeuppance, the smirky employment of concepts like "blowback" (we had it coming, etc.), sentiments that are probably even worse than undemocratic, in fact.

What's shocking in the case of these Israeli intellectuals is what's at stake if their prescriptions were ever followed.

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