I have some limited sympathy for Doug Feith as a guy who’s been abruptly marginalized; it’s hard to imagine a more precipitous farewell. It reminds me of seeing former Cheney aide David Wurmser speaking at a New York law firm this spring. Small crowd, Wurmser had the slightly-hysterical edge of the complete outsider.
Why hasn’t Jeffrey Goldberg reviewed Feith’s book? Three years ago Goldberg was kind to Feith in a New Yorker profile. And in his new book, Feith returns the favor, quoting long sections of a Goldberg piece in The New Yorker from March 2002 purporting to show connections between Iraq and Al-Qaeda– a central claim in Feith’s efforts at rehabilitation. The same Goldberg piece is now quoted in the latest Commentary–a piece not online, by Arthur Herman, arguing that war with Iraq was “inevitable.” It’s no favor to Goldberg, actually, to bring this reporting up; it reminds us that he helped to promote this disastrous war. Goldberg’s protean; I bet he’s trying to put his Feith chapter behind him. Yes, I want to have a Zionist conversation with all these guys. Goldberg once served in the Israeli army, Feith worked for the maximalist Netanyahu. They have surely each believed at times that the west wasn’t a safe place for Jews. Happily, Joe Klein is nudging this conversation into the mainstream.
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"They have surely each believed at times that the west wasn't a safe place for Jews."
Not just the West. Anti-Semitism is held to be universal, otherwise the concept of choseness has no meaning.
Notice how even the reactions of the Arab world to Jewish behavior are increasingly being described as "anti-Semitism."
This is a quote grom Goldberg's article and is an example of the problems of DC.
"His (Feith's) main nemesis on Capitol Hill, Senator Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat who serves on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, told me that…"
If Carl Levin, a man who voted for the Iraq war, is Feith's main nemesis, then we have huge problems. Senator Levin talks a big game, but he always votes for further funding of the war and will never call out Feith or the neocons on their dual-loyalty. Levin is part of the problem, not the solution.
The wasps and the ethnic whites have been cowed and don't have the balls to stand up for America. Fucking pussies.
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