Michael,
It seems to me simply not possible to deny that a major impulse towards the war in Iraq has come from Jews, as neocon ideologues (Wolfowitz, Perle, etc), as supporters in the press (Krauthammer, Krystol, etc), as political organizations very likely with spy-links to Israel, (AIPAC), and as bureaucrats with links to the most radical elements in Israel, the settler movement, e.g., Feith and Abrams.
If noticing all this concerted effort on the part of people who happen to be Jews makes you angry, I’m sorry. I would be quite willing to debate this issue with you, dispassionately. I’m not encouraged however that you are quick to point out that you have in your pocket a can of mace called “anti-Semitism” and that if I don’t watch out, you are going to pull out your supply and start spraying it all over me.
I guaran-damn-tee that kind of bullshit threat doesn’t make me want to mind my p’s and q’s, or make me watch what I say, but just the opposite: it gets the vitriol juice flowing all the stronger. Anyway, “anti-Semitism” has been sprayed around so much that it has lost its sting. If you were to try to apply it, I would take your doing so as an admission of defeat. Ad hominem is the last refuge of a scoundrel who is losing an argument --- as they say, or should say if they don’t. |
