Juan Cole Is Enamored With Rank Populist, Borderline Anti-Semite Ron Paul. Of Course He Is.

Juan Cole has another insipid article out in a mainstream magazine. because he’s such an expert, you see. It’s filled with his typical faux more-intellectual-than-thou fantasies, all delivered with the kind of conceit that only someone who spends his life surrounded by sycophants can muster (“as most of my readers know – what a douche). . There’s the mindbogglingly insane claim that Ahmadinejad never claimed to wipe out Israel – which is obviously a lie, but wow does the anti-Israel left love the warm blanket of sophistication that comes with being able to say “but Juan Cole says there’s no idiom like that in Persian”. There’s the you’ve-got-to-be-kidding claim that Iran couldn’t have threatened to nuke Israel because Iran doesn’t have nukes yet – duh says your fashionable sophisticated Leftist. Etc.

But that’s not what we’re giddy about. This is what we’re giddy about:

Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul continue to show themselves among the few in Congress with any integrity and backbone. They declined to go along with a resolution charging Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad with incitement to genocide, given his alleged call for Israel to be ‘wiped off the face of the map.’

Here’s a little bit of the speech that Ron Paul gave on the floor of the House during the Iraq surge debate that Nancy Pelosi held:

In recent decades, our policies have been driven by neoconservative empire radicalism, profiteering in the military-industrial complex, misplaced do-good internationalism, mercantilistic notions regarding the need to control natural resources, and blind loyalty to various governments in the Middle East.

What government do you think he’s talking about? We think it’s Syria. But at least Juan Cole thinks he’s a standup guy!

References:
* Ahmadinejad: "I am not anti-Semitic – Palestinians should Decide on Two-State Solution [Atlantic Free Press]
* California Bill To Divest From Iran Reaches Senate – Maybe You Should Call Some Folks [Video] [MR]

Previously:
* Juan Cole – Fraud
* Juan Cole is Intellectually Israel Politely Requests That UN Allow UNIFIL Soldiers To Do Their Damn Jobs, Part [Insert Big Number Here]

Cross-posted to:
* The Astute Bloggers

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