Sunday, October 25, 2009
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Reason: Andrew Sullivan and Sources - '...I'm not sure how closely Sullivan followed Operation Cast Lead or how familiar he is with HRW's activities in the Middle East—which perhaps explains his curious habit of attacking not the substance of the arguments presented by groups like UN Watch and NGO Monitor but the not-so-secret-fact they are representing a single side of the issue—and I'm not interested in debating the details of a subject with which I am only broadly familiar. But there is something deeply lazy and, contrary to Sullivan's neutral pose, deeply partisan about this style of argument...'
It's fascinating. Sullivan has a real problem with "neocons".
Anybody who is remotely pro-Israel is a "neocon".
Apparently there are now "hard neocons" which implies "soft neocons".
Anyway, I love Jeffrey Goldberg, also of The Atlantic, who has no problem discussing "neocons" with Mr. Sullivan.
Notably, Mr. Everybody Who Disagrees With Me About Israel Is A Neocon (or worse, maybe a Hard Neocon) has no problem seeing the oppression of people in Iran.
So why can't he see that Jewish people and Israelis are also under threat?
One is puzzled.