Comments on: Is David Sanger Judy Miller deja vu, without the neocon fixins?

By: Richard WittyI

Richard WittyI — Sat, 23 May 2009 15:21:53 +0000

The US should weigh in. Thankfully Obama is insisting that Israel stop the settlement construction (to reluctant ears). But, the US SHOULD pay close attention to the goal, policies, and actions that Iran takes. To date, Iran insisting on violent militancy relative to Israel, HINDERS the ability of Palestinians to make a transition to any viable state. It gives Israel the plausible excuses of "they are all against us". When Iran acts to enact "erase them from the page of history", its impossible to dismiss. I wouldn't share a bed with them.

By: stevieb

stevieb — Sat, 23 May 2009 04:00:19 +0000

Richard only hears" blame and contempt for Israel." Now I wonder if that's because the blame in this particular matter lies with Israel? Could it be true? That would go along way to explaining the contempt you hear too, Richard. Hmmmm….. I guess that possibility was never going to go very far with you, safe to say (makes it even tougher when it turns out to be true – bummer!) Hope that helps though…

By: DICKERSON3870

DICKERSON3870 — Sat, 23 May 2009 00:35:45 +0000

RE: "...Dr. Franklin Lamb in Lebanon..." SEE: The Sabra Shatila Foundation LINK - " target="_blank">http://www.sabrashatila.org/

By: DICKERSON3870

DICKERSON3870 — Sat, 23 May 2009 00:10:45 +0000

RE: "by which time Israel will have destroyed itself by importing too many non-Jewish Russians and Ukrainians" & "Destroyed itself? In what way?" MY ANSWER: By electing more and more Avigdor Lieberman types!

By: onlooker

onlooker — Fri, 22 May 2009 23:15:47 +0000

But, Richard, Israel has nukes now, and it has been land-grabbing in the OT for over forty years. Iran may be threatening, but Israel is doing–isn't there a qualitative difference here US citizens should weigh in the balance of this "mutual conflict?"

By: Richard WittyI

Richard WittyI — Fri, 22 May 2009 22:29:05 +0000

The point you guys have to digest is that Iran is not innocent in this. Its not a question of who is the worst bad guy. A conflict is mutual. Its innaccurate to state that Iran is benign, or not threatening. It would be wonderful if you added your voice to a request to Iran, "We understand where you're coming from, but we fear the effects of escalation. We feat that it will result in war, whoever initiates it." I don't hear that. I hear only blame and contempt for Israel.

By: dalybean

dalybean — Fri, 22 May 2009 20:40:03 +0000

Let's remember that Judy Miller was never an obvious neocon. Thus, her reporting carried a patina of credibility, until it didn't. What Sanger and Miller have in common is membership in the Aspen Strategy Group (remember Scooter Libby's letter to Judy Miller when she was in jail that the roots of the aspen all turn together?) Here is their wikipedia site listing their membership. Nice bedfellows indeed. Scooter Libby is scrubbed. " target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspen_Strategy_Group

By: dalybean

dalybean — Fri, 22 May 2009 20:10:49 +0000

Israel has been escalating against Iran for quite some time whether it is pushing severe economic embargos and blockades against Iran (Acts of War) or preparatory exercises for their attack on Iran. Why do you leave these facts out? If you use Israel's illegal theory of preventive war, Iran would itself be justified in attacking Israel to preempt the coming attack. Right?

By: Mooser

Mooser — Fri, 22 May 2009 16:59:21 +0000

" I believe it is possible to keep two REALITIES in your mind at the same time." My psychiatrist has an ugly name for that.

By: Mooser

Mooser — Fri, 22 May 2009 16:05:12 +0000

"The aspect of this that I find odd, is that if Israel does undertake some military response to the Iranian escalation" Unbelievable! A response to an escalation is aggressiveness, preventive war. You claim a country has the right to attack another country because of a perceived or imagined or anticipated increase in their military capacity? Or is it only Israel who has that right? But of course, it's that agressiveness on Israel's behalf which gets the glands churning, and the ziocaine flowing.