Washington Post ombudsman Patrick Pexton has some spine; he writes about Israel’s nuclear arsenal, and marvels at the fact that no one talks about it, no one outs Israel. And why not?
Americans don’t leak about the Israeli nuclear program either….
George Perkovich, director of the nuclear policy program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said there are benign and not-so-benign reasons that U.S. officials are so tight-lipped. The United States and Israel are allies and friends. “Do you ‘out’ your friends?” he asked…
Among the less benign reasons U.S. sources don’t leak is that it can hurt your career. Said Perkovich: “It’s like all things having to do with Israel and the United States. If you want to get ahead, you don’t talk about it; you don’t criticize Israel, you protect Israel. You don’t talk about illegal settlements on the West Bank even though everyone knows they are there.”
Remember Les Gelb explaining why he supported the Iraq War?
My initial support for the war [in Iraq] was symptomatic of unfortunate tendencies within the foreign policy community, namely the disposition and incentives to support wars to retain political and professional credibility.
“Do you ‘out’ your friends?”
If their director admits that they deliberately withhold information about the Israeli nuclear program, and the call the Israeli government their friend, should anyone take the positions of the nuclear policy program of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace seriously?
Of course not.
If the think tanks say that the Middle Eastern foreign ministers must not adopt IAEA resolutions on Israel’s nuclear weapons program because it will undermine efforts to establish a nuclear weapons-free Middle East, should anyone believe that’s true?
Of course not. Inside the Washington Beltway these stupid bastards get credit for being tax-exempt educational entities. Everywhere else the people know they churn-out propaganda and ignore them.
exposing the process helps expose the lies
Phil Weiss wrote:
“Remember Les Gelb explaining why he supported the Iraq War?”
No no no, Phil. Not the same thing at all. There were any number of reasons one could give for not supporting that war, remember, other than that it was for Israel’s sake. Especially given that Israel was playing coy saying it *wasn’t* behind it.
Thus Gelb was merely talking about wanting to be a part of the herd of independent minds.
What Pexton is talking about is far far worse and ought to be the reason for great outcry and that is fear: That is, the network of jewish individuals in power in Washington who will positively *hurt* (if they can’t actually end) your Washington career if you speak out on such things as the settlements.
A very very different thing I think; very much like the level of remembering and malice and vengefulness talked about by guys like Paul Findlay.
And a very revealing one too given the sheer numbers who must be involved to have created and sustained that fear. Again like Findlay reported, with practically no secrets from any agency or institution in Washington, from the WH on down, that that the Israelis don’t just happen to know almost immediately after we learn them.
Indeed, quite a breakthrough to have this Pexton guy writing this as he’s surely on the list forever now.
Sort of convenient too: Wonder if this isn’t Obama striking back a little now at Israel: Has put his foot in concrete on no attack for now; has Dempsey saying we don’t even want to be complicit; is getting the predictable crap from the usual Israeli-inspired crowd not to mention Adelson and Yaweh-knows-who-else funding Romney instead of him … and so as with Dempsey’s comment is saying “enough, I’m going to start fighting back”?
Sure is something that’s overdue but still would be welcome, that’s for sure.
Israel isn’t a ‘friend’ and they all know it. It’s Zio Mob headquarters and the US government is the kidnap hostage the US zionist snatched to extract ransom money and anything else they can get anytime they want to.
I am telling you though it won’t last. For it to last you have to imagine that this small mob can ‘forever’ control the US, (and the world) that it can command the US to military or covert war after war, trillions upon trillions, for the ZioIsrael goal of dominating the ME.
Won’t happen, something will blow up along the way.
Our top military officer, Gen Dempsey, recently said, not once, but twice, that he didn’t favor an Israeli attack on Iran, and that he wanted to make it clear to everybody that he was not complicit in anyone bombing Iran. So when Condi indirectly, and McCain and Romney much more directly, went on national tv in prime time at Tampa telling us we need to bomb, bomb Iran (and pour even more tax dollars into our Pentagon budget at the expense of our domestic safety nets), did anybody get on the news coverage of the GOP convention and say, “Wait a minute, didn’t General Dempsey just say that what the GOP leaders are advocating is not in the best interest of America? It’s not just Jill Stein and Ron Paul, is it?”