Late last night I wrote about Jim Lobe’s exchange with Richard Perle over Perle’s evasion of neoconservative responsibility for the Iraq war. Well, here is Lobe’s excellent blogpost on Perle’s snakiness, from a month back. It includes citations of two…
Waching C-Span just now, I caught some of Richard Perle’s denial of neoconservatism’s influence in an event at the Nixon Center yesterday and had a few impressions. Perle said that the reason for the Iraq war was the Bush administration’s…
‘They [team Obama] might as well have appointed Bandar”–anonymous Israel lobbyist on the choice of Ambassador Chas Freeman to be National Intelligence Council boss, according to Ben Smith on politico. The commenters are crazed over this.
Dana Milbank reports that Richard Perle is denying that he is a neocon and that neocons had any influence. Perle states, to guffaws and rage, that the power of neoconservatism is a conspiracy theory believed by 50 million people. (Q:…
Dan Drezner at Foreign Policy says I twisted his words when I said that he is “deceiving the public about the power of the Israel lobby.” He dares me to back up my accusation, also to follow thru on my…
My sage friend of Canadian-Indian-Muslim background, who made observations earlier today about the Taliban’s progress in Pakistan, writes: Regarding the comment: “Wow! Now that I think of it…there is NOT one continent that hasn’t been touched by jihad. It’s everywhere….
An Asian-American friend (a Muslim Canadian-U.S. academic born in India) wrote to me in alarm recently, and we had a dialogue: Pakistan is really scaring the hell out of me. Swat has been overrun by the Pak Taliban (the region…
In his interview with the Jerusalem Post, former Bush aide Elliott Abrams says that former Israeli P.M. Ariel Sharon decided to withdraw from Gaza in 2005 for political/tactical reasons: to take people’s attention away from the Geneva Accord, which would…
I guess I’d understand if this former top official in the State Department had something to show for all the access he afforded the Israelis. Like, a peace deal. But no, it’s been nonstop settlements, and Gaza slaughter. Ehud Barak…