When issues heat up, especially those that may involve potential armed conflict, the one thing you can count on is that reason generally goes out the window. The forces promoting conflict tend toward demonization and distortion to frighten people sufficiently so they will back military action while anti-war tend to ignore the very real concerns [...]
Archive for September, 2007
A Dose of Reason On Iran
Posted in Iran, United States on September 28, 2007 | 10 Comments »
De-Mystifying American Middle East Policy: A Response to Steven Walt and John Mearsheimer
Posted in Academics, Jewish Community, United States, US-Israel Lobby on September 26, 2007 | 11 Comments »
The follow-up book to the controversial article “The Israel Lobby” by John Mearsheimer and Steven Walt has now been published. Like the article itself, the book is sure to stir controversy and, one expects that, like the original article, that controversy will consist largely of wild accusations of anti-Semitism and not nearly enough substantive debate. [...]
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