[Peace-discuss] I'm embarrassed...

[esbensha at uiuc.edu]

Carl--

I too enjoyed your contribution and felt it was a noble 
effort, especially being outnumbered 3 to 2. I subsequently 
wasted too much of an insomniac night scrolling through past 
abominations in that rag, dominated by the predictable yet 
still execrable 'anti-war is anti-American/anti-Israel is 
anti-Semitic'. But I did come upon their interview with 
Christopher Hitchens, who some weird fascination keeps me 
paying attention to, and though the first part, while not 
uninteresting, mostly exhibited acrobatics to explain his 
(Hitchens') turn to pro-Iraq war/pro-Bush positions in terms 
of principle, I was fairly bowled over by his hard-hitting 
critique of the Israeli occupation and US policy on Israel-
Palestine in the second part. Plus, presumably due to his 
credentials as apostate of the Left, and in contrast to you 
and Mr. Jenson, he was allowed to have the last word. The 
cites, for anyone who's interested (the material is about a 
year old).

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=11241
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=11253

Rick Esbenshade
Richard S. Esbenshade
Visiting Lecturer
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
506 W. Michigan Ave.
Urbana, IL  61801