Taking a blowtorch to Walt

As I mentioned on Twitter (Twitter! Blogging for people with extreme ADD), Jeffrey Goldberg and David Rothkopf blow up Stephen “The Israel Lobby” Walt. It’s pretty great. Goldberg in particularly gets the disturbing part of Walt’s own defense of Osama bin Laden’s appreciation of his tome:

Let me try to translate: If the U.S. listens to the psychotic mass murderer Bin Laden and hops on Walt’s anti-Israel bandwagon, then Bin Laden will lose popularity, because America, by abandoning Israel and moving closer to Bin Laden’s view of the world, will no longer alienate radical Muslims, for whom the number-one cause is the destruction of Israel, and therefore Bin Laden, having won, will lose relevancy. See? If we just sacrifice Israel, then everything will be okay.

Great, sad, stuff.