--- "Horn, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK. I'm confused. You saying that the reason that > Wolfowitz and > Pearle are known is because of the fact that they > are Jewish and are > neo-cons. But *who* made them well-known? Surely > not the vast > left-wing liberal media? The anti-war liberals? > David Duke? > > - jmh
Some mixture of those. The media needed a story to tell. One story was the strange conspiracy of Straussians and neocons. A story told, I do believe, by people who've never read a word of Leo Strauss. It's a nice story to tell. There's this conspiracy of strange and funky people - people who operate in the shadows, who have bizarre professions like political scientist, and who are easily imagined as the power behind the throne in the Administration. Many of them are Jewish. Then we're off to the races. Wolfowitz is often described as the architect of the war. But how, exactly, was he that? The war had an architect, but it appears to have been _Rumsfeld_, not Wolfowitz, judging by everything I can tell about him. But the SecDef can't be a member of a shadowy conspiracy. Ritu asked if other members of the Defense Policy Review Board were interviewed on such controversial subjects. Of course they were. While I can't find a complete list of board members, I'm pretty sure that Newt Gingrich and Tom Foley are both on it! You can bet they were interviewed. But their roles don't fit into the conspiracy theory, so the attention isn't as big. Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
