WESLEY CLARK: ISRAEL & RICH, NY, ISRAEL-LOVING JEWS CONTROL U.S. POLICY

The Protocols of 'the New York Money People' (WSJ-BOTW)
In another dispatch from the Democratic coronation, Arianna [Huffington] describes a conversation with retired general and erstwhile Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark :

Clark was really angry about what he'd read in this column by UPI Editor at Large Arnaud de Borchgrave. In the piece, which Clark quickly forwarded to my BlackBerry from his Trio, de Borchgrave details Bibi Netanyahu leading the charge to lobby the Bush administration to take out Iran's nuclear facilities, and paints U.S. air strikes against Iran in 2007/08 as all-but-a-done deal.

"How can you talk about bombing a country when you won't even talk to them?" said Clark. "It's outrageous. We're the United States of America; we don't do that. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying the military option is off the table--but diplomacy is not what Jim Baker says it is. It's not, What will it take for you boys to support us on Iraq? It's sitting down for a couple of days and talking about our families and our hopes, and building relationships."

When we asked him what made him so sure the Bush administration was headed in this direction, he replied: "You just have to read what's in the Israeli press. The Jewish community is divided but there is so much pressure being channeled from the New York money people to the office seekers."

Even Clark acknowledges that "the military option" for preventing Iranian nuclear proliferation should not be "off the table," but if the Bush administration does not share his faith that the fundamentalists who run Iran can be brought around by "sitting down for a couple of days and talking about our families and our hopes"--a concept of diplomacy that strikes us as even more naive than Jim Baker's--it must be because the White House is under the influence of "the New York money people"--i.e., rich Jews.

Here are some of the comments from Puffington Host readers (quoting verbatim):

• "God, that entire article is about the Jews. Hey, news flash! OTHER PEOPLE died in the Holocaust, NOT just the Jews. I'm no anti-semite or "holocaust denier" but is EVERYTHING about Israel? The only one in that room with a modicum of sense and patriotic duty was Wes Clark."
  
  
• "Wes Clark for President! He's the only man I've heard who will stand up to Israel and its neocon agents(Harman, Lieberman, Emmanuel, Schumer)who support the Iraqi war because it is reshaping the middle east in Israel's favor. Let Israel attack Iran. Let Jewish mothers, instead of American mothers, mourn the loss of their sons for a while. Go Wes! I hope its contagious."
  
  
• "How many hours before AIPAC and the Israel-Firsters label General Clark "anti-semtic" for his honest, accurate and informative remarks? He is violating a taboo of Washington pols, isnt he? Look what happened to President Jimmy Carter with his new book. When will we wake up?"

But another reader sounds a different note:

As a former Clark supporter, I was disappointed (though not surprised) to hear he's learned so little since 2004. To paint so a broad brush with coded language ("New York money people") is not only out of line--it shows a lack of sensitivity that is unforgivable in today's politics.

To anyone thinking of support[ing] Clark in '08, I say: forget it (even if he did have a chance, which, imo, he doesn't). We need unbiased, competent critical thinkers to get us out of the mess we're in. That description does not include anyone obtuse enough to recite a line that sounds like it belongs in "Gentleman's Agreement."

As we've frequently observed, there is an element of hatred on the Angry Left that goes beyond mere partisanship. Now that the Democrats are the majority party in Congress, one can only hope that the rigors of responsibility will help to temper it.