[lentulusgracchus]

Or maybe David P. Goldman -- senior editor of First Things, the Roman Catholic philosophical magazine.

Are you sure he wrote it? That the pseudonym is his?

It's easy to forget, if you don't know the author is a Catholic, that Catholics like John McLaughlin (and sometimes Wm. F. Buckley) have been critics of U.S. policy on very Catholic "just war theory" grounds.

If one is not aware that the bashing is being administered by a "just war" theorist, or a faithful Catholic defender of that doctrine, one might take the hostility toward U.S. policy to have arisen from enthusiasm for either Palis, or Leftism.

[Christian_Capitalist]

Are you sure he wrote it?

Yes.

That the pseudonym is his?

Yes.

It's easy to forget, if you don't know the author is a Catholic, that Catholics like John McLaughlin (and sometimes Wm. F. Buckley) have been critics of U.S. policy on very Catholic "just war theory" grounds. If one is not aware that the bashing is being administered by a "just war" theorist, or a faithful Catholic defender of that doctrine, one might take the hostility toward U.S. policy to have arisen from enthusiasm for either Palis, or Leftism.

Goldman is indeed critical of US Foreign Policy in this article; but, "we shouldn't be giving weapons to the Palestinians because they'll just use them to kill Israelis", doesn't sound to me like he's very enthusiastic towards the Palis.

[verity]

"If one is not aware that the bashing is being administered by a "just war" theorist, or a faithful Catholic defender of that doctrine..."

And one can still vehemently disagree with them.;-)