Neocons Hiding in Caves & AIPAC Behind Fire-Breathing Iran Legislation
Neocons Hiding in Caves & AIPAC Behind Fire-Breathing Iran Legislation
June 25, 2008 - By: Weiss, Philip
I love straightforward journalism, even like to do it myself now and then. Al Kamen has a good column in the Washington Poston Doug Feith chickening out from testifying before a House Judiciary subcommittee because Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell's former chief of staff, would be there.
[Feith's lawyer John Moustakas wrote in a letter to the committee that] he'd been assured his client would testify "in an atmosphere free from the vitriol and ad hominem attacks that have regrettably dominated the debate."... Moustakas said that in 2006 Wilkerson accused Feith of being a "'card-carrying member of the Likud party' whose allegiance is to Israel rather than the United States." (Actually, according to writer George Packer's book "The Assassins' Gate," it was Powell who made that allegation to President Bush in the Oval Office in January 2005.)
Couple comments. Wonderful that the issue of dual allegiance is broached in the Post. Let's talk about it (let's interview Grant Smithabout A Clean Break). And Feith's attitude suggests again to me how hunted the neocons feel. I observed this first in Bill Kristol's appearance at Yivo. The man is afraid, feels hunted.I feel some sympathy: these are plainly genuine feelings in both Feith and Kristol. Maybe Holocaust-rooted, they believe antisemitism is at the heart of it. Obviously I've contributed to that hunting climate.
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June 25, 2008 - By: Weiss, Philip
I love straightforward journalism, even like to do it myself now and then. Al Kamen has a good column in the Washington Poston Doug Feith chickening out from testifying before a House Judiciary subcommittee because Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell's former chief of staff, would be there.
[Feith's lawyer John Moustakas wrote in a letter to the committee that] he'd been assured his client would testify "in an atmosphere free from the vitriol and ad hominem attacks that have regrettably dominated the debate."... Moustakas said that in 2006 Wilkerson accused Feith of being a "'card-carrying member of the Likud party' whose allegiance is to Israel rather than the United States." (Actually, according to writer George Packer's book "The Assassins' Gate," it was Powell who made that allegation to President Bush in the Oval Office in January 2005.)
Couple comments. Wonderful that the issue of dual allegiance is broached in the Post. Let's talk about it (let's interview Grant Smithabout A Clean Break). And Feith's attitude suggests again to me how hunted the neocons feel. I observed this first in Bill Kristol's appearance at Yivo. The man is afraid, feels hunted.I feel some sympathy: these are plainly genuine feelings in both Feith and Kristol. Maybe Holocaust-rooted, they believe antisemitism is at the heart of it. Obviously I've contributed to that hunting climate.
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