A Satanic Inversion
I’ve seen this Peter Bart Variety piece linked to in a few of my usual haunts, so have at it (emphases mine):
The aggressively photogenic John Edwards was cruising along, detailing his litany of liberal causes last week until, during question time, he invoked the “I” word — Israel. Perhaps the greatest short-term threat to world peace, Edwards remarked, was the possibility that Israel would bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities. As a chill descended on the gathering, the Edwards event was brought to a polite close.
I normally reserve the expression ”a satanic inversion” for another context —in which I attempt to characterize the effects of terminal celibacy on my very fucking soul— but this seems as good an occasion as any to widen its applicability to the likes of John Edwards, and to ask of the Hair-do himself that if you cannot get this answer right —if you cannot discern between our allies and our enemies— then what business have you to be running for the White House? Seriously.
Long before Iran even tests a nuclear device, it will have already, through its proxies in Hizballah and its apparati elsewhere in the region, helped defeat the Cedar Revolution in Lebanon, attacked Israel, and assisted in —if not perpetrated— the murder of American soldiers and innocent civilians throughout the Iraqi theater by means of IEDs, money, and intelligence.
And you believe that Israel’s right to self-defense is the threat?
Get thee behind me, John Edwards. You are dismissed.
