There are so many pro-Israelis Legion of Doom types within and around the DC beltway nothing at this point can be counted on as meaningful U. S. foreign policy in the Middle East. The lethal brew of billion dollar munitions manufacturers, Christian Zionists meeting secretly with the Bush White House and fanatical fear mongers in the major news medias will keep these two critics paper from getting out. Here is an excerpt of the crap they have encountered.
Still, Walt said, "... We were disappointed that much of the reaction consisted of attacks on our characters or on extraneous issues rather than on a serious discussion of our main argument. ... We really didn't say anything that was all that controversial, that wasn't common knowledge inside the Beltway ..."So it wasn't what we said," he continued.
"It was rather that two card-carrying members of the mainstream foreign policy establishment with rather impeccable, even boring, middle-of-the-road credentials and absolutely no trace of anti-Semitic history, attitudes or behavior finally pointed out the elephant in the room."
Read the complete article at: Two scholars say pro-Israel lobby has warped U.S. policy
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