Jeffrey Goldberg, Wrong When He's Right........................by Dan Friedman

I just caught up with a quote from a piece written by Jeffrey Goldberg, another left-leaning Jewish intellectual and Obama toady. It appeared back in January during the height of the Hagel confirmation controversy. Apparently, Goldberg even won over some conservatives for his criticism of “linkage” – the absurd, but persistent, theory that the Arab-Israeli conflict is the root of all the other problems in the region. But in the act of debunking the theory and assigning blame, Goldberg reveals he can’t manage to shake off his self-appointed role as an international social worker.

Decades of dictatorship (with the acquiescence, in many cases, of the U.S. government and the realists who guided its foreign policy) brought the Middle East to its current condition, along with misogyny, poor education, corruption, the politicizing of Islam and sectarian hatred.

Perhaps the man lacks a sense of irony, or is he afraid his readers might have one? Whatever, Goldberg (not unwisely) omitted a crucial contributing factor. For decades, Goldberg and his colleagues on the left obsessed over and promoted the serial failure known as the “peace process.” Heck, Goldberg & Co. still do it today. Their dogged pursuit of that chimera finally transformed their fantasies into conventional wisdom. And that as much as anything “brought the Middle East to its current condition.”