I don’t think Charles Johnson, at LGF, is Jewish, but that fact doesn’t prevent him from being Israel’s staunch supporter. I think he is, not so much because he’s in love with Israel (and no one asks him to be), but because he recognizes that (a) Israel is the only free Democracy in one of the most backwards areas of the world; (b) that those same backward tyrannies are using Israel as a scapegoat and whipping boy to deflect attention, both inside and outside of their borders, from their appalling conduct, both to their own people and (they wish) to the world; and (c) that Israel is the canary in the coal mine — as it goes, so goes the rest of the West, even if people try to delude themselves into thinking that, because Israelis are Jews, they’ll suffer a different fate from the rest of the Infidels polluting the Islamic world.
Johnson’s wisdom means that, with a minimum of words, Johnson was able to cut through the horrible, Israel-destroying crap the Iraq Study Group is spewing. If only others could be so clear in their reasoning and analysis.
On a related point — Baker’s generous willingness to sacrifice the Jews for the good of, well, someone, probably Hamas — see this James Lewis article.
(One last word re my post title: I do not use goy pejoratively, either here or anywhere. In any event, I used it here because I liked the word play on “This guy gets it.”)
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I thought it was guy until I read your last paragraph.
I’m avoiding the Quaqmire, too, BW.
The quagmire isn’t found in Iraq. It’s in the West, and the Dems are leading America deeper.
Luckily, the President’s plan calls, I think, for 2 other groups to offer advice about the situation. He has to take none of it.
Lee Hamilton, from the Study Group, was probably a maverick when he was in office. My family has roots in that part of Indiana. No one is really sure where he got his reputation as an expert on foreign affairs.
I have seen little or nothing usable contributed from Congress concerning the Iraq mission. Outside thinking, as here, has been much worse.
I recognized your wordplay and raised a glass of egg nog to it. I’m a goy, too, and I know you use the descriptor with a smile.
Another thought: Just who decided that James Baker was a wise man? Doubtless the same person or persons think well of Jimmy Carter, too.
It’s times like these I wish that the Bush family really did have political outsiders, rather than people who move in the same circles as the Kennedys. Ougtta be more differences between Crawford and Martha’s Vineyard, I say. And we don’t need more retreads from the first Bush administration, which was notable for nothing more than saving Kuwait and riding Reagan’s coattails until Papa Bush jacked tax rates up after asking us all to read his lips.
While I’m on the subject of retreads, Clinton Cabinet appointee Norman Mineta didn’t do GW any favors by sticking around.
Another thought: Just who decided that James Baker was a wise man?
AS you may remember it was Treasury Secretary James Baker who famously announced on the Sunday before Black Monday that the gov’t would not defend the falling dollar. This helped contribute to the crash. You’d think a screw up like this would have gotten him booted but, sadly, it didn’t.