Ken writes:>I fail to see your point. . Why not criticise the substance instead of the source-- as Jim does? Anyway there is lots of similar stuff from lefties emphasizing the importance of the Israel Lobby. James Petras for example but here is Herman ages ago(in the link below). Herman considers the point Jim brought up re the strategic ally explanation and rejects it for some of the same reasons I allude to in my post. You have some objection to forwarding material from right-wing columnists even if it is more or less correct or even if it is not represents an interesting and reasonably well argued point of view? Why?<
since the New York TIMES, the Wall Street JOURNAL, and most other US news sources are right-wing, to avoid all right-wing sources is to cut off a lot of info. Besides, Margolis might be in the process of moving "left," for all we know. Politics are fluid. I don't expect Pat Buchanan to go anywhere but "right," but some of the lower-level righties might do so. For example, there's Kevin Phillips, who was shoved to the "left" by the Ross Perot campaign. (There's also Arianna Huffington, but she's _sui generis_.) JD
