Michael Scheuer goes after the "Israel-firsters" again at antiwar.com, attacking the Israel lobby for pushing the war in Iran after getting us into the mess in Iraq. He's expanded on Walt and Mearsheimer. As has Joe Klein, who went public about dual loyalty to try and stop the Iran hysteria. I want to say it's finally happening. The journalists are doing their jobs, and exploring the effect of the "lobby like no other," as Scheuer puts it, on U.S. foreign policy, rather than waiting for professors to write books about it and then slagging the books.
Note Leonard Fein, the Forward columnist, committing every fiber of his being last year, at the American for Peace Now website no less, to arguing that the Israel lobby/neocons had nothing to do with the Iraq war. He made a journalistic value of incuriosity, and demonstrated that religious identification with the neocons went of an honest audit of an American disaster for much of the Jewish press.
Or all the boys at Yivo saying it was antisemitic to blame the neocons for the Iraq war. London's Jewish radio station says it's closing down because it can't pay a 15,000-pound slander judgment it owes MP George Galloway for implying that he was an antisemite. We don't have libel laws like that in the U.S., and for good reason: journalists are supposed to discuss these things. Maybe it's happening.
Yeah, it's real exciting that journalists are doing their jobs AFTER the damage has been done. Complicity can't be erased by half-assed reporting. BFD! Next.
The adjective that made it anti-semitic to condemn the neo-conservatives (rather than their ideas), is the spoken or unspoken "Jewish" neo-cons (as an adjective to apply to neo-conservatives as a generalization, Jewish or not, Zionist or not).
A horse is still a horse.
Scheuer is a classic case of a guy who failed upward. And is now making a very good living out of it.. ( I wonder where the jackbooted Israeli lobby is, I'll have to make a call ). Anyway, this isn't exactly a man bites dog story.
RE: "The adjective that made it anti-semitic to condemn the neo-conservatives (rather than their ideas), is the spoken or unspoken "Jewish" neo-cons (as an adjective to apply to neo-conservatives as a generalization, Jewish or not, Zionist or not).
A horse is still a horse."–Witty
An adjective, even a silent one, is like a horse. Wait, make that: is a horse, even a silent horse, a horse you can't hear. Hearing voices is a sign of serious mental problems.
A horse is a noun, but not all nouns are not horses. Consider the source. This goes especially for silent adjectives. It works both ways, no?
If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, acts like a duck, is it a real duck, or a decoy?
Only the hunter knows for sure, unless you grab it, put it on the table, and examine it, test it, preferably with a real duck nearby for comparison.
Scheuer is a classic case of a very courageous guy who stood up against the powers that be.