I’d love to join the optimistic celebration of neoconservatism’s demise in the GOP but look who Ted Cruz just appointed as major foreign policy advisors! Also, bears remembering that W ran as a realist, promising no more nation-building or petty interventions–all it took was one Black Swan terror attack for him to reverse course. http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-03-17/cruz-assembles-an-unlikely-team-of-foreign-policy-rivals
That’s nice that Lara Friedman said this, but APN still supports the massive military aid package to Israel. It’s quite true that Washington has zero credibility as a broker of peace, but without cutting off the military aid and the blank-check diplomatic cover, the U.S. is still providing more incentives for the Israeli state to continue ethnic cleansing and occupation than for any workable peace deal. I don’t see how APN gets away with the P in its name if the group is for for ongoing military subsidies to a country engaged in ethnic cleansing–that’s supporting a war process, not a peace process.
Terrific post! Cole’s an example of a great and subtle legal mind who gets so wrapped up in the law that he misses the bigger and more important picture. Courts, courts, courts, as if that’s the problem with US statecraft–not enough lawyers! Looking to Israel as a natsec role model is depressingly common in the U.S. legal academy, as if Israel’s ongoing ethnic cleansing and periodic assaults on Gaza weren’t making it an international pariah–but hey, all of these strategically and morally disastrous actions are being made within a thick layer of legal process, so they must be OK, such is the hopelessly nomophilic (law-loving, and it might be my coinage) bias of our law professors, even the progs.
Mario Cuomo was in office before I came of political age, but he has always seemed to me a deeply decent man. How is it that his boys Chris and Andrew are such utter shits?
One almost feels bad for Rabbi Leshaw, she’s really having a meltdown, just like American liberal Zionism. Another terrific piece of reporting and analysis–thank you Phil Weiss.
Yes, that response to Eno by Peter Schwartz was quite unreadable–thank you for confirming my sanity, one of the reasons I turn to Mondoweiss.
Great work in Wellfleet! If you do it again next year we’ll join you–Chase and Jenny
Not for the first time, I agree 100% with you Phil.
Thank you for accurately describing J Street as “center right” (and great piece).
Thanks so much for the plug, Phil! And Ms. Gross, please know I’d be delighted to do your show.