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Overnight Open Thread (11-18-2012)WRM: Why Americans Support Israel Short version: Because we're Jacksonians. And we don't see them doing anything differently than we would. And if you haven't read Mead's seminal essay on the Jacksonian school of American foreign policy yet, remove your shame by going here right now. Coming out of the warring, honor culture of the Scots-Irish, this tradition more than anything else explains why America is not like other countries. As Israeli airstrikes and naval shells bombarded Gaza this weekend, the world asked the question that perennially frustrates, confuses and enrages so many people across the planet: Why aren't the Americans hating on Israel more?...Commentators around the world grasp at straws in seeking to explain what's going on. Jacksonians aren't into the whole 'proportional' war thing. When you're in a fight - especially an existential one with an enemy without honor - all bets are off and annihilation of the enemy until they submit is the expected outcome. ...In any case, when Israel brings the big guns and fast planes against Gaza's popguns and low tech missiles, a great many Americans see nothing but common sense at work. These Americans aren't mad about 'disproportionate' Israeli violence in Gaza because they don't really accept the concept of proportionality in war. They think that if you have jus ad bellum, and rocket strikes from Gaza are definitely that, you get something close to a blank check when it comes to jus in bello.
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