Dershowitz on the Chas Freeman Resignation

As someone who was deeply involved in the Chas Freeman episode, I can tell you that at times I was too busy "fighting" to get a clear view of what I was doing. I was always writing another post, op ed, sending more evidence to my Congressman Steve Israel. or appearing on another radio show, trying to get the word our. In my sleep I could tell you why Freeman was bad for the United States, and when I ran out of things to say, Aaron Klein, Steve Rosen, Eli Lake or some one else would find a piece of evidence that I missed to add to the argument.

Its always nice to hear from someone who thought that your arguments rang true, especially wen it is a liberal attorney like Alan Dershowitz:

Y'know, lid. I love your blog. But I've followed the career of Dersh for many years and he makes pro-Israel noises now and then, (Maybe to please his local rabbi? I don't know) and then makes bizarre, contradictory endorsements and donations to anti-Israel Democrats, who then proceed to set anti-Israel policy .

Hot and cold, hot and cold. I don't believe anything he has to say. I keep expecting him to change his last name to "Stewart" and have done with it.

The truth is that the Freeman appointment was bad for America, bad for peace in the Middle East, bad for human rights in China, bad for Tibet, bad for the environment, and bad for “policy-neutral intelligence.” Those who challenged it performed a patriotic duty. They should be praised for helping the Obama Administration avoid a serious blunder that threatened to compromise the President’s ability to act in the interest of the United States on the basis of policy-neutral intelligence(emphasis supplied)

It is a pity that Dershowitz will not draw the obvious lesson from this aborted appointment, the Obama Administration is a radical leftist departure from the American norm. The Freeman appointment is not an isolated incident but congruent with all the moves of the Obama Administration-excepting perhaps the retention of Gates at defense. The appointment of such a man should alert every American that our inexperienced and largely un-vetted president is at best an extreme leftist radical and, conceivably, much, much worse.

It is a further pity that neither Dershowitz nor his ilk will extend to other critics of Obama the mantle of patriotism with which they have draped their own opposition.

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