[Gunslingr3]

Technically, the former head of the Central Command in the Middle East didn't say 'Jews.' He instead used a term that has become a new favorite for anti-Semites: 'neoconservatives.' As the name implies, 'neoconservative' was originally meant to denote someone who is a newcomer to the right. In the 90?s, many people self-identified themselves as 'neocons,' but today that term has become synonymous with 'Jews.'

What bothers me about this is that it's as if they're trying to make neoconservatives a protected class that can't be talked about negatively. If you oppose neoconservative policy, you're a closet racist? C'mon, save the race card for the people without arguments.

[sinkspur]

If you oppose neoconservative policy, you're a closet racist? C'mon, save the race card for the people without arguments.

If you only mention Jews by name, as Zinni did, and Buchanan often does, what is one to think?

There are LOTS of "neoconservatives" who aren't Jews, yet it is always Perle and Wolfowitz who are mentioned by the critics.

Get creative, or risk the accusation.

[Dog Gone]

And the flip side of that argument, if true, is that you can't hold a particular political philosophy without being Jewish.

Not only is such an assertion factually incorrect, it's racist as hell.

[gatorbait]

Guns, the problem here is Zinni's developing Wesley Clark disease. His immediately leaping on the neo-con excuse simply exacerbates it. Do I appreciate Zinni's past service? Of course.Do I think he is being disingenuous at best and frankly seditious ate worst,? Yes. He is about to enter that Admiral Crowe world of slighted flag officers with wadded panties.

[Steve Eisenberg]

What bothers me about this is that it's as if they're trying to make neoconservatives a protected class that can't be talked about negatively.

If Joel Mowbray isn't a neoconservative, nobody is. Why can't he defend himself? If you stay away from nastiness and insults, you can say whatever you want, and, as Zinni shows, you can probably even get away with insults and nastiness when you keep it a bit ambiguous.

[okie01]

"If you oppose neoconservative policy, you're a closet racist? C'mon, save the race card for the people without arguments."

You don't understand. It is the liberals who use the term "neocon" as a pejorative codeword. To them, it means "conservative Jew".

And, since liberals are never racist...