James M Wall: Obama's AIPAC Speech!

Obama's AIPAC speech says, in effect, Netanyahu does not have the support of either Obama or his military advisors, for an attack on Iran unless the Obama "weaponization" red line is crossed. When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu makes his annual state visit this week to Washington, he will be surrounded by sycophants and loyal political allies prepared to respond to his every demand. I speak not of the Prime Minister's traveling companions from Tel Aviv, but of the welcoming community of American politicians, fawning pro-Israel US media stars, and brain-washed interfaith-obsessed religious leaders, far right and mainstream, who have willingly traded their stewardship of the American Soul for a bowl of interfaith Zionist porridge. I strongly suspect President Obama knows this more than he is able to acknowledge. What he must do between now and November is orchestrate the political game skillfully enough to make it clear he does not favor an attack on Iran any time soon. If he is reelected, Obama will then, and only then, be in a position to use his second term to halt all this "bomb Iran" nonsense. The AIPAC weekend did not start well for Obama: It was depressing to see the President playing the political game in a carefully structured individual media interview with The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg. Goldberg used his exclusive post-Netanyahu media interview with Obama to toss up questions which sounded uncomfortably like an AIPAC script. He pushed Obama to affirm his love for Israel, and, by extension, led him close to McCain-like "bomb, bomb, bomb" Iran campaign rhetoric.