JUST HOW RIGHT WAS FRITZ? | 2004-11-13
Hollings is leaving office because he betrayed his electorate to get national status as a liberal candidate for president. Now he bitterly regrets it.
So his anger showed when he made a statement that was perfectly true. He said that, compared to Israel, nothing else in American foreign politics makes any difference, least of all American interests.
Everybody in professional politics knows that. That is precisely why no one is allowed to say it.
Liberals have been trying desperately to say that the War in Iraq is just a a War for Oil. But every now and then liberals slip up and tell the truth. It gets them into DEEP trouble, and every conservative who wants to be respectable screams bloody murder when he does.
No, the Iraq War is not for oil. That would be in America's interest. The last group of Americans who fought a war in America's interst wore gray uniforms, and that war wasn't necessary.
We can get all the oil we need from outside the Middle East. Britain, the only European country that joined in this War for Oil, is also the only European country that has its own independent oil supply.
But there is no other excuse for America's presence in the Middle East except oil. So we must say "oil, oil, oil" because otherwise we will be saying what every Arab leader tells us: the Middle East hates us because we are there for Israel.