Post by aleph on Feb 26, 2009 21:56:37 GMT -5
We told you the new Prez was going to anything he could to stick it to Israel, and you can see that by his selection of Chas Freeman to head National Intelligence. This dude blames Israel for defending itself from terrorists and legitimizes Hamas and Hezbollah. Just the guy we need to write the intel briefs for the Prez. Just peachy....
Here is Chas in his own words:
We already noted his egregious remarks on Tiananmen Square here, and there's more.
Freeman on Israel:
"American identification with Israeli policy has also become total. Those in the region and beyond it who detest Israeli behavior, which is to say almost everyone, now naturally extend their loathing to Americans. This has had the effect of universalizing anti-Americanism, legitimizing radical Islamism, and gaining Iran a foothold among Sunni as well as Shiite Arabs. For its part, Israel no longer even pretends to seek peace with the Palestinians; it strives instead to pacify them. Palestinian retaliation against this policy is as likely to be directed against Israel's American backers as against Israel itself. Under the circumstances, such retaliation – whatever form it takes – will have the support or at least the sympathy of most people in the region and many outside it. This makes the long-term escalation of terrorism against the United States a certainty, not a matter of conjecture."
Freeman on Iraq:
"Very early on, the notion of achieving some sort of victory didn't take. So if victory is not possible and not feasible, even if you could define it, then what you're left with is to find some way to mitigate defeat."
Freeman on his friends and sponsors, the Saudis:
"It is widely charged in the United States that Saudi Arabian education teaches hateful and evil things. I do not think that is the case."
And on Hamas and Hezbollah:
"I'm a very practical man, and my concern is simply this: that there are movements, like Hamas, like Hezbollah, that in recent decades have not done anything against the United States or Americans, even though the United States supports their enemy, Israel. By openly stating and taking action to make them--to declare that we are their enemy, we invite them to extend their operations in the United States or against Americans abroad."
h/t Weekly Standard blog
Also, here's a great article which shows some of the Anti-Israel propaganda that Freeman has supported and advanced. This should be a lesson to those who supported the Prez.
www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/02/obamas_new_spy_chief_publishes.html