tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660192635382980883.post3967172645810242009..comments2023-12-23T02:29:18.896-05:00Comments on War Time: Moyn on Endless WarMary L. Dudziakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17607431773053262679noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3660192635382980883.post-87691851006950196112012-05-29T01:07:47.985-04:002012-05-29T01:07:47.985-04:00For all the high intellectualizing and pained earn...For all the high intellectualizing and pained earnest parsing of high moral questions, I see no evidence that anyone taking part in this discussion is wiling or able to discuss the details of American foreign policy in the past or present: the specifics of our relations with Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Israel or Iran. And yet all of you are capable of patting each other on the back and commending each other's intelligence and moral integrity.<br /><br /><a href="http://francona.blogspot.com/2012/05/lockerbie-bomber-dead-more-questions.html" rel="nofollow">Rick Francona</a><br />"In early 1988, the Defense Intelligence Agency prepared an assessment that concluded Iran would likely emerge victorious if the conflict continued another year. Present Reagan declared that an Iranian victory was unacceptable to American interests - he directed the Department of Defense to take steps to ensure that victory did not happen. The result was a Defense Intelligence Agency effort to provide intelligence information to the Iraqi Directorate of Military Intelligence. I was one of two officers assigned to execute this effort.<br /><br />The effort was successful. With American intelligence information, along with the Iraqi use of modified Scud (al-Husayn) missiles and chemical weapons, Iraq was able to force the Iranians to accept a cease-fire in August 1988."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2012/05/23/tel-aviv-2012-berlin-1938/" rel="nofollow">Richard Silverstein</a><br />"Today, Israel moved one step closer to Nazi Germany circa 1938. In Berlin, Nazis walked the streets terrorizing Jews, smashing windows, burning books and synagogues. Today, in Tel Aviv’s poor Hatikva neighborhood, the cream of Israel’s political Übermenschen, Kahanists Michael Ben Ari, Itamar Ben Gvir and Baruch Marzel terrorized foreign workers who live there with mass violence and nothing less than a pogrom"<br /><br />CS Monitor: "US resumes arms sales to Bahrain. Activists feel abandoned.<br />In major setbacks for Bahrain's opposition, the US has decided to resume arms sales to the kingdom and Gulf Arab leaders are meeting to discuss greater regional integration."<br /><br />Ted Koppel/WSJ: "Israeli officials want a public commitment from Washington to protect the Saudi regime should it come under threat.."<br /><br />Goldsmith: “I don’t know who the ‘we’ is that thinks we shouldn’t do this."<br /><br />How can he be serious, and how can you let it go unanswered, or better: unmocked? The statement is obscene.<br /><br />Legal and political scholarship is literary theory when the lives of millions are at stake. I wish many of you understood that, and the importance of data, as well as you understand the importance of being earnest, and tenure.D. Ghirlandaiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06283931383770759507noreply@blogger.com