David Duke and the Founding Fathers?

Those who have followed the Mearsheimer and Walt controversy will know that various prominent zionists made much of the fact that David Duke (the former Ku Klux Klan leader) praised the article. Well here's a quite old article that mentions just where such reasoning can lead. It was by Richard Cohen in the Washington Post back in April.

On April 5, for instance, The Post ran an op-ed, "Yes, It's Anti-Semitic," by Eliot A. Cohen, a professor at the John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a respected defense intellectual. Cohen does not much like a paper on the Israel lobby that was written by John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen Walt of Harvard University. He found it anti-Semitic. I did not.

But I did find Cohen's piece to be offensive. It starts by noting that the paper, titled "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy," had been endorsed by David Duke, the former head of the Ku Klux Klan. It goes on to quote Duke, who, I am sure, has nodded his head in agreement over the years with an occasional piece of mine, as saying the paper is a "modern Declaration of American Independence." If you follow Cohen's reasoning, then you would have to conclude that David Duke and the Founding Fathers have something in common. I am not, as they say, willing to go there.

I should point out here that Ronald Reagan said that the murderous Nicaraguan Contras were the moral equivalent of the Founding Fathers. Now a zionist, in order to protect Israel and its supporters from criticism has likened a Klansman to them. Does this criminalise the Founding Fathers? Or does it confer respect on the Klan? It doesn't matter but it does show that the founders of America as we now know it can be insulted or the Klan can be promoted in the American media in order to insulate Israel from criticism. And how long can that continue without some general readers noticing?

Ironically, the guy who wrote the WP article didn't agree with the M & W piece, he just didn't like the way its detractors smeared the authors.