Years of Poems and Spirits

It has been 2 month since I first heard of Mearsheimer and Walt’s work on Israeli influence on U.S. foreign policy. However, other than NPR’s “Morning Edition” gave it a 3 minute report, I have not seen any featured articles on NYT or WP or LAT.

For that matter, I did a little search on “Mearsheimer Jewish” on all three papers.
NYT: one op-ed by Judt, who is supposed to be a Israel critic, with a title “Lobby Yes, Conspiracy No” (or something like that); 9 readers replies; one report from the Metro NYC desk.
WP: search return 3 results (”Yes, It’s Anti-Semitic ” op-ed by Cohen, “Report on Effect of Israel Lobby Distorts History, Critics Say” A03, and one blog like thing)
LAT: only 1 relevent entry.
Salon: 1 entry.
ABCNews.com: no entry.
CBSNews.com: one article by AP (title: “Academics’ Paper on ‘Israel Lobby’ Blasted”–does it sound like a smart ass intern is trying to impress his boss?)
FoxNews.com: no entry
(I do not watch much TV at all, so I may have missed something–or did I? But it is safe to say that the media is more interested in stirring up our emotions around Zacarias Moussaoui than around Elliot Abarams)

What the two authors did was courageous but Don Quixote-ish. Talking about censorship or self-censorship, nobody in the world has been so successful.

However, resentment is like steam: if you can’t cool it fast enough, it will explode in your face.