When Britain followed America into Iraq in 2003, the British press had a word for Tony Blair: “poodle.” The junior partner, the logic ran, trotted after the superpower. Nobody in London or Washington suggested Blair had seized control of the Pentagon or of George W. Bush.Twenty-three years later, America and Israel went to war against Iran together, and a loud faction of the American Right reached the opposite conclusion about the junior partner. Tucker Carlson called it “Israel’s war” and said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a “hammerlock” over the American government. Since the midterms, the populist post-mortems have hardened that line into doctrine. In their telling, a country of 10 million led the world’s greatest military power by the nose.That claim does not survive contact with the history of American coalition warfare.The history of America's warsStart with how America entered two world wars.In 1917, Britain did not wait politely for American sympathy. Its codebreakers in Room 40 intercepted the Zimmermann Telegram, Germany’s offer to help Mexico reclaim Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. Part of that interception ran through America’s own diplomatic cable line, which Woodrow Wilson had let Berlin use for peace messages and which Britain was quietly tapping.To hide that it had been reading American diplomatic cables, London obtained a second copy in Mexico City and passed that…
The 'Israel controls America' myth has a long history - and an antisemitic foundation - opinion
Only with the Jewish state does the far smaller and weaker partner become the “master” and the superpower become the “dog.”
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When Britain followed America into Iraq in 2003, the British press had a word for Tony Blair: “poodle. Bush.Twenty-three years later, America and Israel went to war against Iran together, and a loud faction of the American Right reached the opposite conclusion about the junior partner. In their telling, a country of 10 million led the world’s greatest military power by the nose.That claim does not survive contact with the history of American coalition warfare.The history of America's warsStart with how America entered two world wars.In 1917, Britain did not wait politely for American sympathy.
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