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| Obama's National Intelligence Crackpot |
| 2009-03-10 |
| Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal On Thursday, The Wall Street Journal published a letter from 17 U.S. ambassadors defending the appointment of Charles Freeman to chair the National Intelligence Council. The same day, the leaders of the 1989 protests that led to the massacre at Beijing's Tiananmen Square wrote Barack Obama "to convey our intense dismay at your selection" of Mr. Freeman. If moral weight could be measured on a zero to 100 scale, the signatories of the latter letter, some of whom spent years in Chinese jails, would probably find themselves in the upper 90s. Where Mr. Freeman and his defenders stand on this scale is something readers can decide for themselves. So what do Chinese democracy activists have against Mr. Freeman, a former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia? As it turns out, they are all, apparently, part-and-parcel of the Israel Lobby. In a recent article about Mr. Freeman's nomination in the Huffington Post, M.J. Rosenberg of the left-wing Israel Policy Forum writes that "Everyone involved in the anti-Freeman effort are staunch allies of the lobby." Of course: Only the most fervid Likudnik mandarins could object to Mr. Freeman's 2006 characterization of Mao Zedong as a man who, for all his flaws, had a "brilliance of . . . personality [that] illuminated the farthest corners of his country and inspired many would-be revolutionaries and romantics beyond it." It also takes a Shanghai Zionist to demur from Mr. Freeman's characterization of the Chinese leadership's response to the "mob scene" at Tiananmen as "a monument to overly cautious behavior on the part of the leadership."... |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #5 I wonder if his son reads Rantburg? I saw on Jake Tapper's blog where his threatening to "punch the critics in the nose". |
| Posted by: Jack is Back! 2009-03-10 13:32 |
| #4 " Mao Zedong as a man who, for all his flaws" you mean like mass murder and pedophilia? |
| Posted by: Menhadden Cheamble6954 2009-03-10 12:33 |
| #3 Been doing so since Sept., Bright. |
| Posted by: lotp 2009-03-10 10:31 |
| #2 I think Obama isn't like Blair, you've got a Brown instead. Start Worrying more. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles the flatulent 2009-03-10 07:52 |
| #1 clue time |
| Posted by: Gluting Fillmore6653 2009-03-10 07:18 |