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After a quarter of century abroad, Baer hardly recognises the States and is appalled at the level of public ignorance.

'There is no debate,' he says. 'People will not address the question of Palestine in the context of the World Trade Centre attacks. It's not in the terms of the discussion. They simply believe that Israel has the right to defend its democracy like the US does. They don't understand that Israel gives no democratic rights to the Palestinians whatsoever. They don't see that it's not a democracy.'

Comrades what kind of talk is this?

[Southern Federalist]

Comrades what kind of talk is this?

Just the kind of talk which the Guardian, which hates America and Israel about equally rabidly, would eat up with a spoon. Ignorant Americans - Israel is to blame - wonderful!

Baer may know some things about CIA incompetence, especially during the Clinton era. But that give us no reason to give a large moose evacuation about his views of the Big Picture.

He just wrote a book, after all, and now he needs to keep up his media exposure in order to sell it. And I think we know what kind of opinions get media exposure in the US and Britain. In this guy's case it sounds like there's an added factor of revenge on all those who failed to appreciate his savvy brilliance.