"...Jewish community leaders complained about how the debate over the deal was being framed. "If you are a critic of the deal, you’re for war," a senior official at a pro-Israel organization told me at the time. "The implication is that if it looks like the Jewish community is responsible for Congress voting down the deal, it will look like the Jewish community is leading us off to another war in the Middle East..."
Sure sounds familiar.
In that manachean calculus, if you are a critic either for or against action in Ukraine, you are stuck into one of the two boxes: You are either a "Putinista" or a "Ukrainian Propaganda Monkey" and there is no other category you can be placed in.
Thanks for not bailing out this time RL on the Ukraine-ussia issue - glad your interest in Gen Flynn brought you in. Else I would never have seen the great links you provided.
With regards to your statement ... “In that manachean calculus, if you are a critic either for or against action in Ukraine, you are stuck into one of the two boxes: You are either a “Putinista” or a “Ukrainian Propaganda Monkey” and there is no other category you can be placed in.”
Yes, it ends all discussion (in some cases this is intentional), brings forth emotional investment into one’s need to be right and in control, and pits people against each other. Such simplified categorization prevents a search for and acquisition of knowledge and truth. Once recognized however, one knows whom to avoid and why.