The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy

By John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.

Pp. xii, 484. $26.00.

America's favorite son, the indebted, slaveholding bon vivant Thomas Jefferson, set the tone for modern political economy by substituting the right to "pursuit of happiness" for the common-law right of property. Jefferson's novel right, which the state now labors to guarantee, nominally entitles every American to live happily at the expense of someone else's effort, sacrifice, blood, and treasure. The upshot, as the economist Leland Yeager observes, is that government has become the weapon of choice in the ongoing ...

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