gee, here I thought I was mainstream!
But what gets me is - there is no one more pro-war then Loftus. He wants everybody hit over there, he routinely expresees hatred for them all - Syria, Iran, the terror groups like Hezzbollah & Hamas, Sadr, AQ, the Taliban, Pakistan. And he despises the Saudis. He wants everyone taken out over there.
So what does that make him?
He is a huge supporter of Israel and everything he says with regard to the war is colored by that support. This is not meant as a crictism of his views but to answer your post.
I had someone else me ask about those ironies about a week ago. Here is (mol) how I answered him...
Check out these two bio pages (here and here) from Loftus' own website, where you will find several facets of his background that might explain that irony.
He is a former U.S. Army officer and claims to have helped train Israelis on certain aspects of covert operations that were useful during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. While Loftus is an Irish Catholic he is also President of the Florida Holocaust Museum. Nobody who has worked with and developed an affection for Israel and its people, could ever subscribe, in any great measure, to the left's view of the Middle East that is based simply on "Western imperialism". The Arab hatred and violence towards Israel is just too visceral and demonstrable. It is obvious to all but the intentionally blind that the Arab Middle East seeks nothing less than the complete destruction of Israel.
Loftus is also a former Justice Department prosecutor, a position which gave him access to some pretty top level classified information. While at the Justice Department, he worked many of the Nazi war criminal cases and has written about this in several of his subsequent books. Today, he sees the Nazi's as a dark sub-plot to everything that is happening in the world and looks for Nazi's under every bed (sort of a modern day James Jesus Angleton of the anti-Nazi set).
Loftus is a published author and is putting the final touches on his fifth book about the Middle East. He considers his books to be works of history, rather than fancy, but the man is so taken with "the intrigue of intrigue", that his books quickly wander off into Clancy-esque conspiratorial plots and unsupportable speculation. (And that's where he gets into trouble on the issue of WMD and its connection to the so-called Jordanian chemical bomb plot.)
He is a complex individual and not one you can easily categorize in the usual boxes. But a common theme runs throughout his commentaries and that is, that Loftus views the world through such heavily tinted, left-wing political glasses, that he is not a trustworthy source of intelligence about what is happening in the Middle East. His derogatory comments about FR (above), should tell you that much.
--Boot Hill