By Simon Jones
From AxisofLogic.com
Bulatlat.com

Just when it became patently obvious that the tail was in complete control of the dog (i.e., Israel in control of US Middle East policy), the dog has decided to try to reassert control over its nether appendage.

Since the days of Reagan, the Jewish lobby in Washington (and every nook and cranny in the US) has wielded more and more power, until with AIPAC, PNAC (Project for a new American century), 911 and Iraq, it took complete control over US foreign policy, getting Washington to wage open war against Israel’s greatest enemy – Islam.

US vs SU/Islam

The ghost of Reagan is haunting us for another reason. His war against the Soviet Union as ‘Evil Empire’ was successful beyond his wildest dreams, resulting in its collapse. This shining hour (in fact a tragedy, but leave that aside for now) has been the inspiration of hawks ever since, and is the template for the neocon war against Islam and the ‘Axis of Evil’ today. The idea is a massive arms build-up, active subversion, invasion where possible – all this will bring about the collapse of the current enemy, in this case Islam.

The SU and Islam represent(ed) the same anti-imperialist challenge to US (now USreali) imperialism which it was/ is not able to coopt, as it was in the case of the ‘Christian’ ‘West’. So it was/ is necessary to destroy these obstacles. Reagan’s strategy worked in the case of the SU, which was not so resistant to US imperialism as its ideology made it out to be. It was in decline, and was vulnerable to the seductive materialism of the West. It only needed a naive leader and a push and a shove to fall into the US embrace.

Fast forward to Reagan’s reincarnation. Israel now in complete control in Washington. The idea behind Washington’s 1998 blueprint for the future – PNAC – was much the same as Reagan’s – topple the remaining (Muslim) states resisting USrael. Finish the job that Reagan started (and Bush sr refused to complete). The idea was that the latest invasion of Iraq would go like clockwork, creating another US puppet Muslim state friendly to Israel, put paid to the Palestinian resistance, and allow USrael to wage further wars against other ‘Evil Axis’ enemies of Israel, namely Iran and Syria.

Dog turns tail (or rather ‘Tail turns dog’)

But things didn’t pan out so well – Iraq proved a harder nut to crack than the SU, and the Palestinians elected a vigorous anti-Israel government, Hamas, that USrael long has labelled a terrorist organization. Meanwhile, Iran elected a fiery anti-zionist leader and has helped keep the political playfield in Iraq – both government and resistance – solidly anti-zionist.

e inexperienced Olmert, thinking he would do in Lebanon what the US was unable to do in Iraq, ended up repeating the exact same mistakes as the US in Iraq, not to mention in its own previous invasions of Lebanon. And as a result that pesky Hezbollah has managed to do what no one else has been able to do – put the fear of God back into the ‘chosen people’.