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Article: Blame America First . . . . . . or Israel-whichever.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- October 15, 2001
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America is guilty. America is always guilty. Even when it's attacked. So it appears, at least, to a certain type of commentator. When the Towers fell, when the Pentagon was pierced, when thousands of our countrymen were slaughtered-the America Last pundits were there to explain how we had brought these calamities on ourselves. We were attacked, they explained, because we had angered the world. Had we not walked out of the Durban conference? Had we not spurned the Kyoto Protocol? Osama bin Laden, environmentalist in a hurry.
What has drawn the most fire, of course, is America's alliance with Israel. Critics of that alliance, on both the left and the right, have ...