Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: Osama Is Dead via Mondoweiss by Philip Weiss on 10/2/08 Today on Fresh Air, Terry Gross asked former CIA officer Robert Baer to tell her some good news, and he said, Olmert said it this week; the key to peace in the Middle East is to give up the West Bank and East Jerusalem and bring Iran back into the company of nations. Like me, Baer breathes fire on the Israel lobby in some of his online writings. Well here, in the mainstream, he was getting the Palestinian issue front and center by citing the Israeli Prime Minister. Clever boy.
It is further evidence that the realist school is at last taking hold in American public life. 2 other pieces of evidence: Scott McLeod's Time Mag piece to which I referred earlier today, offering Olmert's path as the path forward; and the House leadership's decision to table House 362 last week, the belligerent resolution against Iran that AIPAC had pushed. The Israel lobby is loosing its grip on the American trachea. Something else Baer said interesting. Osama bin Laden is dead, he asserted; and we have to change our strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan. And give up the (neocon) program of spreading democracy by force. Baer thus echoed what former Ambassador George Lane said lately: Let the Taliban stay in Afghanistan, we can't stop 'em. Realism on the rise. Things you can do from here: - Subscribe to Mondoweiss using Google Reader - Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites
