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Philip Backstrom wrote: > Not to be contentious, but I believe that there is much justification for > believing that there is a "cabal" (call it "neo-conservative" or "right > wing" -- "a rose by whatever name....") which clearly intends to turn the > Bush administration towards militarism and war. I do not doubt that there is a movement in this direction (though I think that the term 'cabal' has anti-Semitic overtones so far as it alludes to a secret group who study Kabbalah) but I see in the list of names you offer that only a fraction appear to be Jewish. The best article I have read on the subject of this right wing tendency is Norman Mailer's Only in America in the NY Review of Books of March 27. My question, as a policy scholar sitting up here in the bleachers (one could watch the northern most naval battle of the U.S. Civil war from Kingston, Ontario, the then capital of the Province of Canada, so I have often thought that this was a good figure to depict the relationship of Canadian scholars to the American political reality) is this: will Americans, including Jews, who might prefer a more moderate course, acquiesce in a major imperialist adventure and a long term suspension of the Constitution as seems to be the Rumsfeld-Ashcroft aspiration? Or, will there develop a principled reaction to the rising authoritarianism by whatever name? These are, I think, questions that are vital to the history of anti-Semitism. Michael Posluns.
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