Jack Ross recommends Iowa Republican Jim Leach's speech at the Democratic convention. "He said a lot of things no Democrat will say, like how we're occupying a part of the world that doesn't take well to western occupation. Most significant was his praise for the good Republican Eisenhower - after praising him for getting us out of Korea, he then mentioned Suez!"
Ross also praised Biden in a note he sent me this weekend:
I've always been skeptical of your talk about how Obama can
"triangulate" between the peace camp/realists and the Dennis Ross's. Biden is another matter entirely, as I think he will have the
unique ability to triangulate in vital ways on American foreign policy
generally. He's tight with the Brookings crowd, but he's more then
enough of a realist (or at least not not a realist) to know that the
empire is finished. He says all the right things to Brookings and the
Georgia Lobby, but he knows perfectly well why we can't be in an
adversarial relationship with Russia.
I'm confident that this applies to the Middle East as well. I vividly recall that either during or just before the height of the Second Intifada in 2002, he was on the interview show Bob Novak used to share with either Mark Shields or Al Hunt, and responding to some crazy quote from Netanyahu, Biden said "Bibi's a good friend of mine but he's just plain wrong".
Shields and Hunt, incidentally, also tend to share Novak's pro-Arab sympathies; I'll never forget Shields loudly upbraiding Kate O'Beirne of the National Review: "We're talking about Ariel Sharon, not Albert Schweizer!".
I've come to the conclusion that the attack-dog traits and realist fear of history in Biden are more valuable than the realist-isolationist sympathies of Jim Webb. Biden will be the American Talleyrand, who goes to the Congress of Vienna (most likely in this case, Teheran) to get the best deal America possibly can, and a pretty darn good one at that. And this is the back door by which there can be justice in Israel/Palestine.
I'm confident that this applies to the Middle East as well. I vividly recall that either during or just before the height of the Second Intifada in 2002, he was on the interview show Bob Novak used to share with either Mark Shields or Al Hunt, and responding to some crazy quote from Netanyahu, Biden said "Bibi's a good friend of mine but he's just plain wrong".
Shields and Hunt, incidentally, also tend to share Novak's pro-Arab sympathies; I'll never forget Shields loudly upbraiding Kate O'Beirne of the National Review: "We're talking about Ariel Sharon, not Albert Schweizer!".
I've come to the conclusion that the attack-dog traits and realist fear of history in Biden are more valuable than the realist-isolationist sympathies of Jim Webb. Biden will be the American Talleyrand, who goes to the Congress of Vienna (most likely in this case, Teheran) to get the best deal America possibly can, and a pretty darn good one at that. And this is the back door by which there can be justice in Israel/Palestine.
Weiss again: I like the analysis, as I like Biden, though he is a bloviator pol. Note this youtube of him declaring himself to be a Zionist... But that's what triangulators have to do I guess.
No clue who the great Jack Ross is. I suspect that he is of the Phil Weiss mold. Classic Jewish anti-semite. But there is a flaw in his stuning brilliance. Obama still has to win.
Bill, that's really easy to see just follow the "Jack Ross" tag. Is tag the correct term in this context?
Jack Ross
An interesting young man according to Phil:
One of my gurus, Jack Ross, 23,
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What exactly was good about Ike's betrayal of France and England and his support for the Soviet-minded Arab Nationalists?
Our betrayal of Britain, France, and Israel had long term consequences.
1. Decolonization became radicalised.
2. Many Arab countries turned to the USSR.
3. The French elite , nursing a grudge against the US, betrayed the West. First they stood apart from NATO, then they started the Eurabia Project.
JBS may be full of conspiracy nuts, but the falseness of their claim that Keelhaul Dwight was a communist may not have really mattered. He was still wrong on most foriegn policy issues (remember "atoms for Peace" and killing the Bricker Ammendment)? It used to be that Fusion Conservatives, Paleoconservatives, and Neocons all hated Ike. When did Paleos sell out?