July 21, 2006
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A Florida Reader
Calls For A Repeal Of The 17th Amendment
An Oregon Reader Sympathizes With
VDARE.COM But Says It Should Leave Israel Alone; Peter
Brimelow Replies
From:
[Name Withheld]
Re:
Paul Craig Roberts
I’m sympathetic to some opinions on
your website. However, I would never think of
supporting
VDARE.COM as long as you publish Paul Craig Roberts’
anti-Israel
diatribes.
Actually, as far as the Iraq war
goes and as one who follows the Israeli press, it's hard
to see that there was much banging the drum there for
the Iraq war. Mostly, people seemed to think we were
going after the wrong country—Iraq instead of Iran—or
else they felt sorry for the mess we were going to get
into.
I remember one columnist who said
re the Iraq democratization "You're going to do what!"
I also remember reading on an Israel website before the
war that the Americans were not going to find the WMD
because they were just then being moved to Syria.
Maybe Bush should have gotten more
advice from the Israelis, not less.
In any case, what does Israel have
to do with immigration, which is what VDARE.COM is all
about, right? Maybe you’d do better to post only
material having to do with immigration.
Posting diatribes about Israel or
neocons must be a huge turnoff to people who, like
myself, share some of your concerns about immigration,
but who are staunchly pro-Israel.
Peter Brimelow writes:
Sigh.
As I keep saying, VDARE.COM is a
coalition focused on immigration reform. We do not take
stands on other issues. But we like to carry the few MSM
syndicated columnists who risk their careers to support
immigration reform, and since we have to pay for all of
their columns, we run them all. We figure their views on
the Iraq War etc. etc. balance each other out. Judging
from our mail, that seems about accurate. As it happens,
we have also run
articles by Zionist supporters
of immigration reform—annoying a very different group of
readers.
On a
personal note, I have known Craig Roberts for some 35
years. He has been a loyal friend and influenced me in
various ways, notably on the issue of
prosecutorial abuse. As
with the
late Sam Francis, I promised
to carry all his columns at a time when the
Establishment Right was wimping out because they wanted
to keep getting invited to the White House. I don’t want
to go back on that promise.
But I do
wish he’d return to writing more about immigration.
