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Next up: Larry says this podcast is “fascinating.” More:

George Kenney, our blog friend (he did the professional taping of Larry’s riveting interview of Valerie Plame Wilson), writes:

Starting the New Year with a controversial topic, in today’s show I talk with Dr. John J. Mearsheimer, co-author with Stephen M. Walt of The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy. John is a very sincere, high-minded, and extremely intelligent guy — even if you’ve already read into his and Walt’s work it’s fascinating to hear him tell the story.

Personally, I found it interesting that, like me, John is a relatively recent student of the Lobby — he started thinking about it after 9/11 he says, and he “couldn’t have written the book ten years ago.” In my case I guess it was somewhere in the late 1990s that I realized I’d been missing a critical part of the picture. Anyhow, this goes to show, I suppose, that there are important things people can learn about even in middle age.

Hopefully others will build on Mearsheimer and Walt’s work and we’ll be able to better confront the Lobby over the next several years. If not, I’m afraid the prognosis is rather bleak.

Please give this one a listen even if you disagree; I think it’s an important conversation.

lester

damn I don’t have sound on this computer. But that book is dope I read it when it came out. There is an earlier version of it in the form of a working paper that is available online and i’d recommed people read it if they haven’t already. It’s funny when people talk abuot becoming energy independent, they don’t talk about the fact that we will still be giving billions not only to israel but the surrounding dictatorships.
TeakwoodKite

Measles ‘kills Afghan children’

Officials in the Afghan town of Musa Qala say nearly 30 children there have died from measles since the Taleban were forced out of the town last month.
They say the disease has been exacerbated by cold weather.

Doctors say many of the children were from families displaced by the fighting, who were unable to find adequate shelter.

Musa Qala, in Helmand province, was recaptured by Nato and Afghan troops in a combined air and ground offensive.

Medical officials in the Helmand capital, Lashkar Gah, said they were unaware of the problems in Musa Qala.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7171879.stm

TeakWoodKite

This story highlights why the efforts in Afganisstan will fail if these sad stories are not dealt with. To me, it is a matter of national security to address the deaths of children. Not providing the for basic needs displaced persons creates bad outcomes. People who survive this will always remember.

Kathleen

John Edwards is the only one not taking Pac money including Aipac.

He is the only one mentioning the “cakewalk in Iraq” zealots who lied us into the war (many of the radical zealots are Israeli firsters)

Hello New Hampshire

edwards:
“I want to make an announcement today. No corporate lobbyists or anyone who has lobbied for a foreign government will work in my White House. We will not replace corporate Republicans with corporate Democrats. I hear people argue that the way that you can get things done is to sit at a table with drug companies, insurance companies, oil companies, and negotiate with them and somehow they will voluntarily give away their power. I think this is a complete fantasy.

“I am proud of the fact that I have never taken money from a Washington lobbyist or a special interest PAC my whole time in public life. I don’t think you can bring about change by taking their money or sitting down at a table and trying to make a deal with them. I think if that worked, we would have universal health care, we would be attacking global warming, we’d have a trade policy that makes sense, and we’d have a tax policy that makes sense. I don’t think these people will give up anything without a fight – they’ve been there too long and they have billions of dollars at stake.

Former President Jimmy Carter’s book “Palestine Peace, Not Apartheid” is the book to read along with or close to the time that you read Mearsheimer and Walts book. “The Israel Lobby”

As Jimmy has said for years “until the US starts do deal with the I/P conflict in a fair and balanced way, the cycle of violence will continue” And we will continue to ignore one of the root causes of why so many people in the middle east are pissed off at us.

susanunpc

Kathleen, I so hope that Edwards does smashingly in NH. I truly like him.

Kathleen

Yeah…that’s the ticket. Put the radical theo,(Muslim, Christian, Jews) neo, oil CONS AND RADICALS in their boxes…and allow the moderates to prevail!
Kathleen

It has been alarming how the MSM has ignored Edwards for the last year. Just in the last few months have they been giving him a bit of time. All I want is a fair race (know that is asking too much, but I for one will keep pushing).

I have yet to hear Chris Matthews or anyone else apply the same scrutiny to the Obama campaign as the Clinton Campaign. Of course they have as mentioned above ignored him. The Obama campaign has been on full throttle spinning OBama as the “agent of change”, “hope”, the “anti war-candidate”. Where is the proof?

Could not be the fact that Obama skipped town on the Kyl Lieberman amendment, at a critical time when he could have demonstrated that he is the “anti war-candidate” by standing firm against the cakewalk zealots and saying NO NO NO to their agenda with Iran based on unsubstantiated claims about Iran. No OBama played it safe…Obama has abstained voting on some where around 180 pieces of legislation as his spin machine repeated that he was some “agent of change” Show me the proof.

HIllary is Ai Pac woman and is too much of a warmonger, although I respect her more for taking a stand even though she lost me when she voted for the Kyl Lieberman amendment.

Edwards learned from his bloody 2002 war resolution vote, he is the only one who brought up the neo-cons who lied our nation into this war based on a “pack of lies”

I will not vote for someone because they are a woman, black, or white. I vote on issues, lessons learned, and real change. I will not hold the fact that Edwards is white and male against him.

I am looking for real change….Not Spin

Micheal Moore, Ralph Nader, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbing,, Harry Bellafonte are all supporting Edwards. NOt that I need the famous to tell me how to vote..but if you do these are a few of the folks standing behind Edwards

Shirin

“I will not vote for someone because they are a woman, black, or white.”

Thank you! I am so tired of hearing people talk about the race and gender of the candidates as if it were either a positive or a negative. It should be a non-issue. What matters is their records and their characters.

And yes, yes, I understand that having a Black person and a woman as top contenders for the office of President can and perhaps should be taken as a positive sign, but at the end of the day gender and skin colour are not what make someone worthy or non-worthy.

Kathleen

Moderator
You could eliminate the websites that you do not like. but that response I believe was on target and worthwhile.

this conference on the paper and Book by Mearsheimer and WAlt is worth the watch. Barely got any coverage

http://www.scribemedia.org/2006/10/11/israel-lobby/

G Hazeltine

This is excellent.

Cee

We need to push for this to change.

The article, by George Soros, published in the New York Review of Books, asserts that America should pressure Israel to negotiate with the Hamas-led unity government in the Palestinian territories regardless of whether Hamas recognizes the right of the Jewish state to exist. Mr. Soros goes on to say that one reason America has not embraced this policy is because of the influence of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

Yesterday, Mr. Obama’s presidential campaign issued a dissent from the Hungarian-born billionaire’s assessment. “Mr. Soros is entitled to his opinions,” a campaign spokeswoman, Jen Psaki, said. “But on this issue he and Senator Obama disagree. The U.S. and our allies are right to insist that Hamas — a terrorist organization dedicated to Israel’s destruction — meet very basic conditions before being treated as a legitimate actor. AIPAC is one of many voices that share this view.”

http://www.nysun.com/article/50846
http://billrosspolitics.blogspot.com Bill Ross

Obama’s “time for a change” slogan is about the lamest slogan ever. It has been used over and over again by those with no real clarity of the issues. Obama is a NOT a black candidate… he is a relative of Dick Cheney. You can call the cup half full, but he is as white as he is black.
In fact, the term “black” is bogus. You and I are neither black nor white – just shades of brown. I’ve seen Aryans who spent some time in the rays of the sun who are way darker than O. And speaking of O, Oprah is not the one to pick the one to be deciding our President’s face – whether it is black or female or Muslim enough.
Obama’s strategy: “Let’s pull out and hope it works out. Change. Change!”
Well.. not good enough.
The problems we face require a firm grasp on these facts:
* Islam is NOT a religion of peace, but rather a serious and credible bid for world domination;
* Islam is not just using rhetoric when it declares war against us.. we should respond in kind;
* Dearborn is a threat;
* Islam is the problem;
In order to survive as a nation we must CRUSH Islam.

Islam is the problem, not US foreign policy.

http://www.food4humanity.org HoosierHoops

Whoa..Mr. Ross, Allow me the first to reply..
First off… Obama’s skin color should not be brought into this conversation..He is Human, he is american, He is a Senator for gawds sake.. You by bringing this up in such a distasteful post are a pig…And probably every Pol for the last 200 years has said it’s time for a change..It’s what Pols do, they ask us to change things..new leadership, policies, direction and a new party in charge..
That’s lame? no that’s the truth..that why we have elections..to give opportunity for change..Are you a Nazi or something?
You’re screed about Islam is sickening..It’s unfair and not factual.. For example The Spanish used the catholic religion to main and murder millions in the 1500′s… do you want to justify the Car bombings in the name of god in Belfast in the 70-90′s?
How about the crusades? How many millions were killed in God’s name then?
How about the so called witches in Salem?
Bad people kill in the name of thier God through-out time.. It’s not the religion..it’s the people highjacking a religion.. stop blaming a peaceful religion and get off your high horse..

Taters

Well said, HH.

Shirin

You, sir, are a blithering idiot.

G Hazeltine

‘Idiot’ is much too kind. Rather: vile, hateful, racist enabler of mass murder, preparer of the ground for more war, the murder of more children. Moral scum.

What ever happened to ‘Never Again!’?

http://www.evergreenpolitics.com shoephone

Mr. Bigot – I checked out your blog. It wins the award for #1 in Hatred Against Muslims.

You must be very proud.

http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

I second that.
http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

SHOEPHONE (and Kathleen): How is Edwards’s fundraising going? I got his fundraiser e-mail.

And is he expecting to do well in South Carolina? He should, I would think. (Haven’t seen a poll from there in a while / probably missed it.)

http://www.evergreenpolitics.com shoephone

Susan – they are not giving out exact cash totals yet, but this link on the Edwards website says that on January 4 (the day after Iowa) the campaign saw its largest online fundraising yet.

http://www.johnedwards.com/news/press-releases/20080104-record-breaking-contributions/

I do wish someone would post some $ numbers, but I understand they probably don’t want to invite comaparisons to Obama’s contributions over the same period of time.

Cee

In order to survive as a nation we must CRUSH Islam.

Dearborn is a threat? LOL!

How about if we crush rabid Zionists and the Christian fundamentalists who support them too?

Taters

HM KING ABDULLAH II
foreword
Amman, July 26th, 2006

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

I am extremely grateful to God for the role He has blessed me with in bringing about the Islamic Consensus that is the subject of this present book. However, this consensus does not represent the opinion of one man, one ethnic group, one country, or even a group of countries. It does not represent one school of Islamic Jurisprudence or one school of thought in Islam. It represents a unanimous agreement by all Muslims everywhere as represented by their acknowledged most senior religious authorities and political leaders.In one sense this book brings nothing new, and changes nothing. Islam is the same as it ever was, and its principles are everlasting: belief in the One God; in the Holy Qur’an as His Word; in the Prophet Muhammad–may peace and blessings be upon him–as His final Prophet and Messenger; belief in the five pillars of Islam and six tenets of faith. In another sense it is a unique event which gives the Islamic world something it has not had since the era of the 4th Righteous Caliph and 1st Imam Ali bin Abi Talib–may God ennoble his countenance–namely,a universal consensus and mutual recognition by Muslim authorities from all the major existing schools of thought and factions on what it means to be Muslim and on who has the right to speak authoritatively in the name of Islam.

Its content is not a collection of empty slogans, political grandstanding, or religious demagoguery. Herein the reader will find no malice, no petty rivalries and no hostility. Its content is a message of unity, mutual respect, and brotherhood. As such it is also a definitive answer to sedition amongst Muslims, and a clear demarcation of True Islam in all its forms.

And as all True Islam forbids wanton aggression and terrorism, enjoins freedom of religion, peace, justice and good-will to non-Muslims, it is also a message of good news, friendship and hope to the whole world. I pray that this unique consensus as documented and affirmed in this book will bring us closer to a world where we can be loyal to our religion, live in peace and prosper with all our fellow human beings, and fulfill the purpose for which we all were placed on earth.

HM KING ABDULLAH II

From the Official Website of the Ammam Message

http://ammanmessage.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=16&Itemid=30
Taters

Muslim helps Jews attacked on New York subway

From Nkechi Nneji Dec. 12, 2007
CNN
NEW YORK (CNN) — A Muslim man jumped to the aid of three Jewish subway riders after they were attacked by a group of young people who objected to one of the Jews saying “Happy Hanukkah,” a spokeswoman for the three said Wednesday.

Friday’s altercation on the Q train began when somebody yelled out “Merry Christmas,” to which rider Walter Adler responded, “Happy Hanukkah,” said Toba Hellerstein.

“Almost immediately, you see the look in this guy’s face like I’ve called his mother something,” Adler told CNN affiliate WABC.

Two women who were with a group of 10 rowdy people then began to verbally assault Adler’s companions with anti-Semitic language, Hellerstein said.

One member of the group allegedly yelled, “Oh, Hanukkah. That’s the day that the Jews killed Jesus,” she said.

When Adler tried to intercede, a male member of the group punched him, she said.

Another passenger, Hassan Askari — a Muslim student from Bangladesh — came to Adler’s aid, and the group began physically and verbally assaulting him, Hellerstein said.

“A Muslim-American saved us when our own people were on the train and didn’t do anything,” Adler said.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/12/12/subway.attack/
G Hazeltine

Muslims join Christians for Mass
BAGHDAD — Outside Mar Eliya church, not much had changed since last Christmas: Concrete blocks still surround the building and guards check the IDs of those entering.

But inside, hundreds of Iraqi worshipers — Christians and Muslims — were crammed into the overflowing Chaldean Catholic church Tuesday, celebrating the holiday and the fact that they felt safe enough to venture out of their homes to attend Christmas Mass.
[…]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iraqxmas26dec26,1,3763462.story?coll=la-headlines-world
Retired

It would seem that between the Israel lobby and the Saudi lobby, our politicians on both sides of the aisle are pretty much spoken for. Is there any room for an American lobby? And even if there were, how much money could such a lobby raise to compete with the money that Israel and the Saudis are waving about. Anyone want to propose a front-runner in the current presidential sweepstakes that isn’t kowtowing to one or the other of these lobbies–or both? Can you prove it?

TeakWoodKite

Retired ,Super power …super pawn. A Beggerman a thief. We are told “I am the answer”. The clock is running and our money is almost worthless. I was traveling 1000 miles and had to fill up a Uhaul (darn kids) which took way more than fifty dollars to fillup. I say fifty dollars because thats all I was “allowed” to pump. The pump cut off.
Having worked as teenager in the gas lines of the last embargo, there are oil clouds on the horizon…
I would love to prove it but all most folks require is a leap faith when they jump off. No?

Shirin

Well, you know, it IS their oil, and they DO have the right to do with it as they wish. And the funny thing is that I’ll bet if the U.S. would recognize that and respect it, the owners of the oil would mostly be a lot nicer and more cooperative. See, they have a lot of power with all that oil, so when you piss them off, they can really sock it to you.

TeakWoodKite

Is it truly anyones Oil? The world moves to Global economies but not global ownership.
That aside. It matters not who it belonged to. It will be taken. In terms of who is the next president I don’t have any indication that any off them can change it.

Cee

Edwards comes close to being someone who won’t be owned by either lobby.
Hillary and Obama are spoken for.

Shirin

What the hell kind of question is that? The resource belongs to the one on whose land it exists and they have the right to sell it for whatever price they can get for it, or to keep it to themselves. And no, there is no global ownership, there is rather a battle for control of this particular resource between those who rightfully own it, and those who do not own it, but wish to control it for their own benefit.

And it is not a question of whether the next president CAN change it, but whether they have any intention or desire to change it. Very few of them do. Certainly not Hillary, definitely not Obama, probably not Edwards, though he seems to me marginally better than the first two.
Shirin

PS Let’s not make any mistakes regarding what this struggle for control of the oil (which was one of the goals for the aggression against Iraq) is really about. It isn’t about obtaining oil for the use of Americans. Nor is it really about financial profit per se. It is about something far more sinister. It is about controlling the world by controlling the commodity that the world depends on. That’s the purpose of that “oil law” that the Bush regime has been so frantic to force the Iraqi make-believe government to approve. And I have reluctantly gained a modicum of respect for the maybe-not-completely-make-believe Iraqi parliament for their “failure” in regard to that particular “benchmark”.

As for Maliki and his make-believe cabinet, I have finally raised them in my estimation from make-believe to the level of puppet, though not based solely on their approval of the “oil law” but on a series of other things as well.
lester

kathleen- ron paul has been outspoken in criticizing the neoconservatives and AIPAC. He even did so in the debates. He’s been doing it since before the war, which he voted against
G Hazeltine

‘Controlling oil’ is a phrase that is widely used, but on closer inspection, empty. Extraction of oil depends on a complex and exceedingly fragile and vulnerable infrastructure – as vulnerable as the Turk’s railways to Lawrence, and indeed the Iraq-Haifa pipeline and the Haifa refinery to the Zionists, who shut them down at will, finally bombing the Haifa refinery so effectively that it burned for months. American forces cannot fully control the few miles of road from the airport to Baghdad. There are thousands of miles of pipeline in Iraq, and dozens of key facilities. Any competent insurgency renders the words ‘Control of Oil’ utterly meaningless. The architects of the Iraq war fully understood this. They had other goals, which to a large degree have been met.

Regarding Edwards, his campaign manager is David Bonior. In that there is some hope, I think.

TeakWoodKite

Any competent insurgency renders the words ‘Control of Oil’ utterly meaningless. The architects of the Iraq war fully understood this. They had other goals, which to a large degree have been met.

One of few documents pertaining to Cheney’s “energy” meeting prior to the war was a a detaled map of oil infastructure in Iraq.

One of the goals in Afganistan was the oil road, to wit they “hired” a former exec from UnicCal, Hamid Karzai.

Prior to the Afgan war they were negotiating with the Taliban for the same.

What other goals do you speak of?

G Hazeltine

Negotiating with the Taliban made some sense, perhaps, though given the truly massive investments required, and very long lead times, it was a serious risk. The Taliban at least had a record of fairly effective control, virtually eliminating the heroin trade, for example, though this record was brief. On the other hand, the Afghans have a very long record of encounters with foreign empires, none of whom have benefited from the experience. Throwing the country into chaos, with the intention to put it back into order with western troops, is not a plan that would give an oil executive confidence, to put it mildly.

Perhaps the map was a teaching aid of the oil executives, to point out to Cheney why the plan was a bad one. Saddam Hussein was in fact the oil industry’s perfect client – a guarantor of stability and profit.

Now the details of how a few thousand Sternists and Irgunists – with support of others – threw a hundred thousand British troops out of Palestine – a tiny place compared to Iraq and Afghanistan, with at the time a total population – Arabs and Jews – of a couple of million, is not common knowlege, it was certainly well known to Wolfowitz, Feith, Wurmser, Abrams, Kissinger and others, not least Cheney. Perhaps they did not credit the Iraqis with the talents of Shamir and Begin, but Iraq is on a completely different scale, and the American troops hardly more numerous than the British in Palestine. After Bremer’s disbanding of the army and police, de-Baatification, failure to secure ammunition dumps, and so on and on, there was no possibility of any result other than an effective insurgency.

If we had wanted the oil we would have done a deal with Saddam Hussein, or let him leave the country, as he offered to do. Or, having invaided, we would have done what Gen. Garner said was essential – not disbanded the army and police, or removed the Baath – who were in large part the technocrats who made the country run.

Chaos was conciously created. Iraq was completely destroyed. There are millions of Iraqi refugees in Jordan and Syria – the Arab world has been set back a generation. Civil liberties in the United States were severely curtailed. The positing of Islam as the replacement to the Communist threat successfully accomplished. The notion of a ‘Peace Dividend’ well and truly buried. The national security state is secure. In a post the other day Glen Greenwald cites figures to the effect that American military spending is at a level of 623 billion dollars a year, and the entire rest of the world combined, 500 billion. Yet Clinton and Obama both propose to increase that spending. Obama will increase the size of the military by nearly one hundred thousand. And the racism seen in the occasional post here – not to mention the barbarity of Guiliani’s commercials, hardly elicits comment.

In the very long term oil might be a consideration – the people responsible for all of this think in much longer terms than most of us usually do. If Iraq is broken up, in fifteen or twenty years who knows how the Middle East might look. But the short term goals, and in my view the main goals, have been substantially met.

TeakWoodKite

Chaos was conciously created

SO, I am not alone in have this point of view. Thinking in the long term is not what Americans do well, if at all. It is a difficult slog to fathom how “we” can break this march to a strange new world.

Neo-fascism in America

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7553.htm

Sandy

Thanks for this thoughtful, open discussion. And, thanks again Larry and Susan for the Kenney dialogue with John Mearshimer. It was excellent. And, well worth the time spent. Gets right to the heart of the matter. The one no one — in the mass media — talks about….is ‘allowed” to talk about…openly.

I’m glad to hear you’ve changed your mind about Edwards, Susan. I was taken aback about a month ago at the negativity and rumors that were here about him. Just what the corporate types work at…and want us to believe. That the public will buy into their swill. Can’t have anyone who thinks for himself and says he’ll do what Edwards says he wants to do. Not sure how he’d do it exactly. But he must know people would (try to) hold him to his campaign promises at least. How refreshing for any candidate…besides Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich…to give one damn about the working class and their concerns.

There’s just so much corruption to wade through to get there, though. It’s hard for me not to just know in my heart it’s a next to impossible task to clean it all up.

Thank heavens for the John Mearsheimers and the Steven Walts courageously speaking the truth, despite the known consequences.

Meanwhile, Rudy Giuliani says he’d like Dick Cheney to be his V.P. God help us.
TeakWoodKite

Will Bush “allow” this case to go forward? Discovery will be a bitch!

Lawsuit claims legal opinions led to mistreatment, illegal detention

MIAMI – Convicted terrorism conspirator Jose Padilla sued a key architect of the Bush administration’s counterterrorism policies Friday, claiming the official’s legal arguments led to Padilla’s alleged mistreatment and illegal detention at a Navy brig.

The lawsuit claims that John Yoo, a former senior Justice Department official, wrote several legal memos that led President Bush to designate Padilla as an enemy combatant shortly after the U.S. citizen was arrested in May 2002 at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport on suspicion of involvement in an al-Qaida plot.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22509544/
TeakWoodKite

SusanUnPC: a followupto a previous thread regarding the Marinas and Tom Delay. I got this email back from Millers office.

Thanks for your email. I’m glad to be able to report that we have made a lot of progress over the last year.

A bill introduced and passed in the first week of the new Congress (H.R. 2) brought the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands under U.S. minimum wage law. That increase, which was signed into law in May 2007, means that workers there now make $3.55 an hour, and the minimum wage will continue to rise in the CNMI until their wage equals that of the U.S. mainland and other territories.

Last month, the House of Representatives passed legislation that will end the broken local immigration program in the CNMI. The legislation the House approved (H.R. 3079) brings the CNMI within the federal immigration system. By applying federal immigration law to this territory, the legislation will put a stop to the CNMI’s over-reliance on imported guest workers, and will start to stem the flow of smuggling. The agreement which established the political union between the U.S. and the CNMI specifically granted the U.S. Congress the right to extend U.S. immigration laws, but the Republican congressional leadership repeatedly blocked efforts to do so.

I hope that helps. Thanks again for your interest.

Ben

______________________________________________
Ben Miller, Legislative Director | Rep. George Miller (D-CA)
ben.miller@mail.house.gov | 202.225.2095 | http://www.house.gov/georgemiller/
TeakWoodKite

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