--- Dave Land <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 16, 2005, at 10:28 PM, Gautam Mukunda wrote: > > > --- Dave Land <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I am not picking a fight with you, but what is > the > >> basis of this claim? > > My question remains unanswered.
If you insist on ignoring my point, I cannot help you. My point is that it is somewhere between unlikely and impossible for a DepSec to be a major player in the decision to go to war. It's pretty obvious. While I would love to be a DepSec, and they are important people, they aren't the people who make decisions like going to war. Wolfowitz didn't have the power to do that himself. No one in a position to do that was influenced by him to any great extent. Anyone who thinks Donald Rumsfeld (for example) could be manipulated by a _political science professor_ like Wolfowitz is just nuts. Wolfowitz is more important than I am (this is not hard). He's much, much less important than the people who _actually made the decision_. None of whom were Jewish. It was convenient for some war opponents to create a Jewish conspiracy. As Hitchens said, it's pretty obvious what's going on. http://www.slate.com/id/2084147 But, in the end, he was _only a deputy secretary_. It's implausible, to put it mildly, that he was the crucial figure in the decision. Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
