The Unstatable Obvious

From Max Rodenbeck's review of Kenneth Pollack's latest:

What is troubling about Pollack’s view, which is fairly representative of his fellow liberal interventionists, who are likely to be in power soon, is its lack of clarity. Can’t we just admit that American support for Israel is strategically burdensome and is driven by the passion of several domestic constituencies rather than cold cost-benefit geopolitics?

Clearly, Max Rodenbeck is an anti-Semitic terrorist appeaser. In all seriousness, can't we admit this? I should add that I think there are additional good reasons to support Israel, namely that "abandoning" them would severly harm American credibility, and that, in general, we should try to protect democracies.