[Burkeman1]

Interesting? Sobran is "brilliant" but yet destroyed himself because he "hates Jews"? Geesh- this "anti semitism" must be a catching disease because it seems anyone one the right who has the slightest question about this current gulf war seems to "catch" this strange disease called "anti semitism" as well?

[BlackElk]

Sobran's problems long predate the Iraqi War of 2003 and the Gulf War of 1991. I do not doubt that a rising tide of left-wing anti-Semitism has fueled the knee jerk antwar mania of the left. There is some on the "right" as well but there are certainly some folks who regard themselves as conservative who are simply allergic to a manly and interventionist foreign policy, recognizing that it is better to batter them in Baghdad than to have to pummel them in Peoria among American wives, children and old fplks. Do you really think Sobran is prospering professionally since being launched by Buckley from NR?