The Architects of Fear Redux

Neocon John Podhoretz just yesterday dismissing legitimate, reality-based criticism of Trump's colossal Iran war fuckup as antisemitism:

Sellout whore for anti-Semitic bucks says what? pic.twitter.com/Hiumd5iyWM

— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) March 9, 2026

Working for a clickbait shill for anti-Semites apparently is your soul's necessity. https://t.co/Onbw4lYj60

— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) March 9, 2026

Neocon David Brooks 23 years ago dismissing legitimate, reality-based criticism of Dubya's colossal Iraq war fuckup as antisemitism (dead link because The Weekly Standard no longer exists):

It's Back

The socialism of fools has returned to vogue not just in the Middle East and France, but in the American left and Washington.

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AFTER JOE LIEBERMAN completed his unsuccessful campaign for the vice-presidency, I pretty much concluded that anti-Semitism was no longer a major feature of American life. I went around making the case that the Anti-Defamation League should close up shop, since the evil they were organized to combat had shrunk to insignificance.

Now I get a steady stream of anti-Semitic screeds in my e-mail, my voicemail, and in my mailbox. It transpired that I couldn’t have been more wrong. Anti-Semitism is alive and thriving. It’s just that its epicenter is no longer on the Buchananite right, but on the peace-movement left...

I mentioned that I barely know Paul Wolfowitz, which is true. But I do admire him enormously, not only because he is both a genuine scholar and an effective policy practitioner, not only because he has been right on most of the major issues during his career, but because he is now the focus of world anti-Semitism. He carries the burden of their hatred, which emanates not only from the Arab world and France, but from some people in our own country, which I had so long underestimated...

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