Hat tip: The Daily Dish

I’ve been reading about the case of Chas Freeman, who has been nominated for National Intellgence Council Chief. Seems as if Mr. Freeman has been targeted by the Israeli Lobby for being, agasp, a person not falling in line with everything pro-Israel.

Mr. Freeman from a speech in 2007:

In a fall 2007 speech to the Pacific Council on International Policy Freeman said:

“In retrospect, Al Qaeda has played us with the finesse of a matador exhausting a great bull by guiding it into unproductive lunges at the void behind his cape. By invading Iraq, we transformed an intervention in Afghanistan most Muslims had supported into what looks to them like a wider war against Islam. We destroyed the Iraqi state and catalyzed anarchy, sectarian violence, terrorism, and civil war in that country. Meanwhile, we embraced Israel’s enemies as our own; they responded by equating Americans with Israelis as their enemies. We abandoned the role of Middle East peacemaker to back Israel’s efforts to pacify its captive and increasingly ghettoized Arab populations. We wring our hands while sitting on them as the Jewish state continues to seize ever more Arab land for its colonists.”

I agree with Andrew Sullivan. If the man has FINANCIAL problems, fine. I don’t have a qualm with him being jetted because of financial dealings. But, that doesn’t seem to be what’s happening here. He’s being villified by the neo-cons, who shouldn’t be able to say SHIT for what they’ve put this country through in the past 8 years, and the Israeli lobby. When is this country going to begin doing foreign policy for what’s best for US, and not what’s best for Israel? Hell no, I don’t think they’re one in the same. We give them, what, 3 billion dollars a year (conservative estimate- some put it as high as 5.5 billion), and we don’t get to tell them what to use it for? Why isn’t the foreign aid to Israel put in the same box as that ‘aid’ given to Africa?

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