Reply #18: Thank you for this.

[TayTay]

I have NOT yet seen Sen. Kerry's speech at AIPAC and will comment on it after I do.

I did see Steny Hoyer and Eric Cantor this morning and it was a very depressing appearance. The sentiments being expressed are classic neocon arguments, right down to the idea that the only thing our enemies understand is force and brutality and that mercy is a sign of weakness to them. That these sentiments are being uttering in the same speeches that lament the Holocaust and the idea that no one intervened to help when lack of mercy and brutality were being used against a people is horribly ironic.

That was a distinctly unpleasant experience. I sincerely hope that Sen. Kerry will deliver a strong proposal of support for Israel without this jingoism that offers up suffering as a justification for more suffering.