Otherwise, you will have to provide references to this friendliness, and just what that meant.

In the '80s, the neocons were selling chemical weapons to Iraq. The same chemical weapons that were later used against Kurds and Shias, and, ironically, were dragged out as casus belli in 2003 (nevermind that such stuff has a shelf life...).

That friendly enough for you?

I think that it was in 1982, that Israel bombed Iraq's nuclear facility in progress.

Well, that was sort of my point. Iraq was on Israel's shit list throughout, but it wasn't on the neocons' shit list until the balance of American geostrategic interests shifted against Iraq.

Which points to the conclusion that the neocons are primarily American nationalists, and that their support for Israel is a consequence of their broader ideology, rather than a driving force in it.

- Jake

Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.