[UCFRoadWarrior]

If Mccain wants the anti-Semitic James Baker (not the first I heard Baker was a Jew hater) in his administration....you can bet McCain will be weak dealing vs Islamic Terror

Koch may be a liberal but he has been very supportive on the War on Terror

[penelopesire]

“Also in the running, it appears, is Zbigniew Brzezinski, who served as President Jimmy Carter’s national security adviser. Years before Baker’s hostile remark about American Jews, Brzezinski, then an adviser to candidate Carter, was reported (by Marvin Kalb) to have said to an Israeli official, “How will you like the idea of working with a new president who owes nothing to the Jews?”

In March 1980, Koch caused a major controversy when he criticized Brzezinski and three other top Carter Mideast advisers as a “Gang of Four” who were trying to turn the U.S. against Israel. (The reference was to a group of Chinese leaders who had been pushed out of power by their rivals.)

“During his years in the Carter administration, Brzezinski did indeed push for a tilt against Israel, as he acknowledged later in his memoirs of that period. More recently, he and several colleagues issued a statement urging the U.S. and its allies to engage in “a genuine dialogue” with Hamas. Brzezinski has endorsed Senator Barack Obama for president and reportedly is part of Obama’s circle of foreign policy advisers.”

Obama would definately ‘CHANGE’ our foreign policy! Brzezinski has actively undermined our efforts in the WOT!

[kabar]

you can bet McCain will be weak dealing vs Islamic Terror

I am not a defender of McCain nor will I be voting for him. However, the idea that McCain will be weak in dealing with the WOT is pure, unadulterated BS.

[Sudetenland]

There is nothing "anti-Semetic" or "Jew-Hat[ing]" about what James Baker said. James Baker was clearly anti-Zionist, but that does not impute "anti-Semetism," merely anti-Zionism.

It would help matters if people understood the difference between being "Jewish" and being "Zionist." There are still in America a lot of Jews who believe that the Zionists went against the Word of God by establishing Israel by their actions rather than waiting for God to fulfill his promises.

I happen to be very pro-Israel and consider Israel one of our most indispensible and strongest allies...when it suits their needs...but for Ed "Crotch" to launch into this "poor us Jews" attack against anyone who takes exception to some of the actions of the state of Israel or who doesn't kowtow to AIPAC's every demand is beyond the pale.

If he has some sort of person animosity towards Baker, it is fine for him to voice it, but everything he attacks Baker for saying was factually accurate, if less than elegant in the manner in which it was said.

Too many people on the Left looking to be victims and not enough being adult enough to understand that not everyone is going to like you.