Posted on 10/09/2017 8:16:19 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
The ugly accusation that Jews ‘use’ the Shoah to drive nations to war migrates from the swamps of the right to the foreign policy left
....what was once a line of argument employed only by a handful of far-right haters like Joe Sobran is finding a new and more welcoming home among the progressive and realist foreign policy sets, whose views increasingly overlap in their wariness toward the state of Israel and its alliance with the United States...
....Leading the brave charge against Jewish conniving in recent months has been Atlantic national correspondent James Fallows. In reaction to the controversy surrounding Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress earlier this month, Fallows published a long series of blog posts in February and early March, not only disputing the suitability of appropriating the Holocaust with regard to the risk posed by Iran to the Jewish State, but implying that certain actors are deliberately exploiting the Nazi genocide to manipulate U.S. foreign policy for predictably uncouth purposes.....
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Frankly, I don't know much about Fallows. But the way he is bashing the President, I think maybe he isn't a very bright bulb.
“exploiting the Nazi genocide to manipulate U.S. foreign policy for predictably uncouth purposes”
Granted, “Nazi” is thrown around a lot these days, particularly by the likes of “Antifa”, itself a totalitarian movement. “Genocide” is probably used less as a political epithet than “Nazi”, but when genocide is in fact practiced, it is by totalitarian or authoritarian governments, predictably leftist, or by totalitarian “religions” such as mohammedan groups like ISIS.
I don’t know a lot about Fallows, either, but from what little I can remember about him would agree that he is a very dim bulb indeed.
James Kirchick is a vile neocon who demands open borders for America.
There is no question that some people who want war with Iran have been using the Holocaust to argue their cause. There is nothing wrong with pointing that out.
James Fallows whose writing career, covering decades, is peppered with tomes with dire predictions about the U.S., all of which did not come to pass.
His ability to predict future conditions is burdened with the fictions he tells himself about the present.
Atlantic national correspondent James Fallows. Thanks SoFloFreeper.
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