Intended to be sent to Crooked Timber right after I finished doing this:
Dan Simon-
With all due respect and in all sincerity, are you saying that Ledeen's son's military service means anything in this discussion? Or is the fact that it means something to anyone who cares about the serving military, that it summons honor and respect in most of us, enough to give it weight wherever it goes?
Young Ledeen's on active duty therefore the idea of intentional sacrifice of others is contradicted and made absurd.
I have some other questions that are no more tangential than that and bear heavily on Kristol's stance in American affairs:
How many Israeli soldiers have died in Iraq? Our closest ally in the Middle East.
How many Israelis have operated within Iraq since March 03? None?
How many? What were they doing?
None?
Nothing?
This is, or I've taken it to be, a moderately open forum where issues of the time are discussed, in an academic format with a strong emphasis on etiquette and polite discourse. There are self-identifying Jewish voices here, at both ends of whatever polarity operates. This is a forum in which there are at least four regular contributors who consistently defend the Israeli position on Palestine, and still more who vehemently scorn anything like an accusation of Israeli and American Jewish subterfuge at work in the American presence in Iraq.
There are no identifiable Arab or even identifiably Muslim voices here. There's your iceberg.
