[Foreign Policy] David Rothkopf - What I did not like most about the Chas Freeman debacle was the degree to which it offered apparent support to the "Israel Lobby" theories of Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer. Whatever the pale intellectual merits of Walt's argument may be, he and Mearsheimer know full well that their prominence on this issue has come not because they have had a single new insight but rather because they were willing and one can only believe inclined to play to a crowd whose "views" were fueled by prejudice and worse.
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