Web Letters: The Coming 'Stab in the Back' Campaign

I am not sure what Alterman's intent is in this article.

Most of us who are informed have been aware of the shift(s) and stab-in-the-back campaign(s) for some time. It is not news. The blaming of the left by the neocons is not the only campaign. Two years ago AIPAC and well known neocons launched a scathing attack on Bush, saying he had not committed enough US force to ensure victory in Iraq.

Anyone or group not advancing the war fanatic's agenda is a target for attack, even their own.

As for the reference to the same tactic(s) being applied to the Jews by the Germans the plain fact is the Muslims and Arabs are the "new Jews" for this Administration and Israeli interest. The actors in this new twenty-first-century drama have just switched roles, that's all. The tactics always work the same regardless.

The comparision of the China Lobby to the Israel Lobby in this article is irrevelant at best. Evidently it is meant as a defense of the Israel Lobby. But this is here and now, not then, and our eye is on all those people and groups who have supported and colluded in this US-led ME disaster.

No get Out of Jail Free cards for anyone on this worse perversion of American power and principles in our history. No misdirection, no extenuating circumstances, no excuses accepted.

Rachel Renfro

Jacksonville, NC

"Stab in the Back" arguments will only be possible if the Iraq/Terror Wars are unsuccessful. There is no need for that to happen if we have the intellegence and patience to see the process through. Unfortunately, there does appear to be an active faction with an emotional need for American defeat, and that appears to color many people's reactions.

If the Iraq scene is brought to a stable, freer, possibly even a democratic conclusion, that would be best for everyone. Can anyone disagree with that point?

John D. Froelich

Upper Darby, PA

Was there ever a doubt about a revisionist Iraq narrative? This tactic is part and parcel of "Disaster Capitalism" and the Imperial American War machine. We are already seeing the refighting of the Iraq War. And this time, guess what? We win!

The House and Senate quickly condemned MoveOn for exercising their First Amendment Rights. As Senator Barbara Boxer said, there was no such clamor for the Swift Boaters or those that slandered Max Cleland. To add injury to insult, the House and Senate passed resolutions, by wide margins, that in effect, name Iran as a Terrorist State. Clinton, Obama and Edwards are already insulating themselves by pushing out our so-called withdrawal date. In that way the neocons have claimed their third victory.

The MainStream Media has already bought and dissseminated the contrived "Proxy War Theory" to explain why we are losing in Iraq. (It couldn't possibly be that the Great American War Machine was defeated due to its own incompetence.) For a great article on Iran bashing read this : "Debunking the Neocons' Iran War Measure"

When will the insanity stop?

Michael McKinlay

Hercules , CA

We need not be susceptible to the coming "Stab in the Back" campaign if we articulate, over and over again, a simple premise: That the war could be won if only the rich people would allow themselves to be taxed to the point where they are sharing the real sacrifice of wartime with the rest of the nation. Failing that happening, it will be of course the rich (Bush's base, who run the Republican Party) who should be blamed for not supporting the war effort. Now since the rich are allergic to taxes, they will never go for it. So the only sensible alternative is to leave, and the sooner the better.

We didn't lose the war. The Republicans who turned their back on it so they could maintain their wealth lost it. Shame on them.

Eugene Barnes

Dunn Loring, VA