So I was postponing some work and I skimmed (read like a tenth of) your Mearsheimer stuff. A couple comments.
First off, the driving force of our current policy towards the Isrealis is an inclination to judge the Palestinians on the basis of their use of terrorism, and to avoid rewarding them for it. The "Isreali Lobby" is now secondary at best in driving policy. Of course realists don't recognize that kind of stuff because it dosen't fit into their nice clean balance of power arrangement. Still good that these guys wrote the paper. At the very least it's a move to fight the tyranny of political correctness.
Second, you ought to defend your use of Mossadek's Iran as an example of a democracy. If you can't defend it then you are guilty of consciously perpetuating a popular historical lie. That would be an ironic thing to do for someone praising free discussion of taboo subjects.
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So I was postponing some work and I skimmed (read like a tenth of) your Mearsheimer stuff. A couple comments.
First off, the driving force of our current policy towards the Isrealis is an inclination to judge the Palestinians on the basis of their use of terrorism, and to avoid rewarding them for it. The "Isreali Lobby" is now secondary at best in driving policy. Of course realists don't recognize that kind of stuff because it dosen't fit into their nice clean balance of power arrangement. Still good that these guys wrote the paper. At the very least it's a move to fight the tyranny of political correctness.
Second, you ought to defend your use of Mossadek's Iran as an example of a democracy. If you can't defend it then you are guilty of consciously perpetuating a popular historical lie. That would be an ironic thing to do for someone praising free discussion of taboo subjects.
Oh yeah, and Arrested Development is overrated.
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