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I’ll See Your Quartet And Raise You An Axis

The unbelievable Max Boot cooks up a new phrase, certain to enter the history books as one of the sillier propaganda phrases of the last five years, “the Quartet of Evil” (Hamas must be the cellist) and declares that Israeli preemptive war against…Syria is the only logical thing to do.  Because toppling Assad (which might very well be […]

The unbelievable Max Boot cooks up a new phrase, certain to enter the history books as one of the sillier propaganda phrases of the last five years, “the Quartet of Evil” (Hamas must be the cellist) and declares that Israeli preemptive war against…Syria is the only logical thing to do.  Because toppling Assad (which might very well be the result of any Israeli or American attack on Syria) would make the region less volatile, I’m sure.  Because destabilising Syria and pushing it into the arms of the Muslim Brotherhood would be a victory against jihadis everywhere.  Because bombing another civilian population and creating a refugee crisis in yet another country would solve Israel’s problems with Hizbullah.  Oh, but that’s right, stability is the problem, not the answer.  Why didn’t Metternich ever think of that one?

But then comes the big punchline:

It is, of course, hard for a liberal democracy such as Israel to contemplate war if it hasn’t been attacked directly…

It gets even harder to go to war if the democracy hasn’t been attacked at all by the country in question, but Max always finds a way to support those wars, too.

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