I see David Weigel has a response to my column, posted on Andrew Sullivan’s blog: he, Michael Totten, and the blogger formerly known as Wonkette are filling in for Candy Andy while he takes yet another vacation.
I don’t really have that much of a bone to pick with David: as I said in my original post, he’s one of the Good Guys, a critic of the War Party, a reasonable person, and, by the way, an interesting writer. Which is why I don’t get his rather odd objection to a button handed to John J. Mearsheimer at the CAIR forum [.pdf], which read: “”Walt & Mearsheimer Rock. Fight the Israel Lobby.”
Weigel finds this button “weird” — but why so? Surely Messrs. Mearsheimer and Walt deserve all the adulation they can get, especially in view of their continuing vilification at the hands of the Lobby. And, speaking of which, why not fight the Lobby? This isn’t a debate over abstractions: it’s a political battle, and there is nothing “weird” about wanting to recapture American foreign policy from a well-funded, well-organized, and single-minded foreign lobby.
What’s weird, however, is that I was originally responding to Weigel’s post at Reason‘s “Hit and Run” blog: he’s cross-posting at Sullivan’s blog. The only post that doesn’t appear on both blogs is his response to me.
Could it be that there is a “No Raimondo” rule at Reason? Hilarious, if true… Poor Nick Gillespie: is he really that humorless? Probably.
