This is the most disgusting anti-Jew bile we have ever seen on C-SPAN.
Caller – Neo-cons “Jewed us into Iraq” “Jews have too much power”
C-SPAN guest Michael Scheuer – “Israel as a country is of no worth to the United States”
Yeah, allies are worthless when they are Jews.
Scheuer was the head of the Bin Laden unit of the CIA from 1996-1999, a period during which the 9/11 Jihad was planned without detection by the CIA.
Perhaps he is just deflecting away from his own failure to keep Americans safe.
Also, you gotta love the premise which goes uncorrected, that “Neo-Con” Jews are not Americans.
Shame on C-SPAN
Sir,
Just so you quote me correctly, the following sums up my thoughts re Israel:
As you may have noticed, I did not respond to the caller’s bigoted question, but I did say what I thought was appropriate about the U.S.-Israel relationship. This whole issue — from my perspective — has to do with relations between two sovereign nation-states. I oppose any kind of relationship with Israel because no vital U.S. national or security interest is at stake in the relationship, nothing in the least that should lead America into a war. Indeed, there is nothing in the relationship for America but endless expense, diplomatic disasters, wars not of its own making, the corruption of its domestic political system, and — increasingly — numbers of dead U.S. soldiers and Marines. The U.S. has no genuine interest in either Israel or Palestine, nor does it matter to America who wins the war those two entities love to fight. Quite simply, a pox on both their houses.
If I can make this any clearer, please let me know.
Finally, you can be quite sure that none of the Founders would have ever lead the United States into the war-causing relationship America now has with Israel. For some validation of this point see:
–Washington, George, “Farewell Address”.
Respectfully,
M.F. Scheuer
Falls Church, VA
As an intelligence analyst for the US Army and later as a civilian contractor, I can say that this statement is not only absurd but also dangerous.
To blame Israel for the war religious ideologues have declared on us is indicative of your slanted perspective.
22 years? Really? You are living proof that incompetency is hard to fire at the CIA. Oh, and good job catching Bin Laden.
“I find Michael Scheuer as a human being is of no worth to the United States”
So-called Americans often use the phrase “to jew” as a verb for: 1. bargaining at
dpt stores and yard sales, the way they use “to gyp someone” or to get
gypped, which refers to a slur against Gypsies…… and 2. in
some political circles now we see the neofacsists and white supremacts saying
things like “the Neocons jewed us into Irag”, so the verb takes on
another ugly meaning. ….. and now the Cspan guy saying the Jewish
Neocons “jewed us into Iraq..” just like Harry Reid got called onto
the carpet for saying Negro recently when talking about Obama, we as
a nation need to look again into how the word “jew” has been mal-used
by so-called Americans as a verb for “bargaining down the price” and
“Jewish cabals jewing the USA into foreign wars.” If Bill Safire was
alive, he would do a column on this. Which brave Jewish or non-Jewish
newspaper columnist on language will look into these issues for us?
This caller identified as John from Franklin, N.Y. and maybe not his
real name but his use of the phrase “that jewed us into Iraq” is
important to point out. Many so-called Americans in rural areas
especially, and even in Sarah Palin’s Alaska where I often hearr these
terms being used in daily conversation, and it is entirely possible
that Ms Palin has used such wording before herself in regarding to
“jewing someone down” in regard to backyard garage sales in Wasilla
and Juneau—I know, because I lived in Alaska for 12 years and often
heard very nice Alaskans use this terminology, to my own face even,
and friends in Alaska born in Minnesota, too, used this phrase right> to my face without even being aware they were slurring an entire
people—so this use of “that jewed us into Iraq”—using to jew as a verb
in such an ugly antisemitic way—bares watching by the late William
Safire and other wordsmiths. This is not an isolated case. Some
reporter should ask Sarah Palin if she ever uses such terms when
talking about bargaining at yard sales in Alaska. And if she doesn’t
use the term herself, does she speak up when she hears a fellow
Alaskan speaking this way within earshot and tell them to curb their
antisemitism, however, innocent it may be?