Here at Prairie Weather, we've been wishing for an evaporation, a disappearance. We've been hoping for a giant sucking sound indicating AIPAC has gone away. Among the leading pernicious in pernicious lobbyland, AIPAC stands out. I think it's more than fair to put them in the front row with the defense industry and "healthcare." AIPAC has been easy to forget during the past several months. Or at least it's been forgotten out here in the southern plains.
But damn, they're ba-a-a-ack, and they have a good deal of responsibility, it seems, for recent behaviors on the part of that shameful bunch of quivering Democrats, that sorry Congressional majority. Glenn Greenwald, citing Robert Baer's article in Time, writes this morning about evidence that the Iran attack, though not underway as yet, is going to happen. Just plain going to happen, against all wisdom (and against all assessments of our capabilities to carry it through).
Aiding and abetting? The House Democrats. Greenwald, taking note of what a commenter at his site has written, reports: "House Democrats, in the face of intense AIPAC lobbying, already backed away once before from a rather mild amendment that would have required (or, more accurately, purported to require) the Bush administration to obtain Congressional approval before attacking Iran..." Greenwald continues:
That measure would have merely required Congressional approval before starting a new war with Iran -- it did not oppose such a war -- and Democrats could not even manage to enact even that minimal (and constitutionally redundant) safeguard. That they will act to stop an attack on Iran if the administration wants one seems virtually impossible -- especially in the midst of a Flourishing Surge, and particularly once the anti-Iran P.R. campaign really revs up...
Puh-lease. Let's not start that "being against AIPAC is being anti-Israel." That's like the sorry argument that being against corporate domination is being anti-American. Quite the contrary in both cases.
