Friday, March 16, 2007

Unrepentant

Friday, March 16th, 2007

Here is Slate editor Jacob Weisberg, writing in the Financial Times about the latest American Enterprise Institute shindig, where neocon bigwig Bernard Lewis received an award and made a speech defending the Crusades as the first phase of the necessary struggle against “Islamofascism”:

Were one to start counting ironies here, where would one stop? Here was a Jewish scholar criticising the Pope for apologising to Muslims for a holy war against Muslims, which was also a massacre of the Jews. Here were the theorists of the invasion of Iraq, many of them also Jewish, applauding the notion that the crusades were not so terrible and embracing a time horizon that makes it impossible to judge their war an error. And here was the clubhouse of the neo-conservatives, throwing itself a lavish party when the biggest question in American politics is how to escape the hole they have dug.

In attendance: Dick Cheney, applauding; Clarence Thomas, the first to rise for a standing ovation; Richard Perle, Robert Bork, and Reason editor Nick Gillespie. We hear the crab bisque was “better-than-average.”

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