Brian Small<p></p><blockquote><span>.&gt; ^n27 ... WSJ, Jan. 19, 1989; Johnson, Sunday Telegraph, June 1, 1986. Johnson and Podhoretz are exulting over Libya and Grenada, respectively. A notorious apologist for terrorism and atrocities, Johnson also applauded </span><a href="https://misskey.cloud/tags/Israel" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Israel</a><span> for "having the moral and physical courage to violate a so-called sovereign frontier" by invading Lebanon in 1982 to excise "the terrorist cancer" -- with an estimated 20,000 or more killed, mostly Lebanese and </span><a href="https://misskey.cloud/tags/PalestinianCivilians" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PalestinianCivilians</a><span> (quoted by </span><a href="https://misskey.cloud/tags/WolfBlitzer" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WolfBlitzer</a><span>, </span><a href="https://misskey.cloud/tags/JerusalemPost" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JerusalemPost</a><span>, June 29, 1984). In the real world, the invasion had nothing whatsoever to do with "the </span><a href="https://misskey.cloud/tags/TerroristCancer" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TerroristCancer</a><span>," except insofar as Israel hoped that the attack might return the PLO to the </span><a href="https://misskey.cloud/tags/TerroristPolicies" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TerroristPolicies</a><span> Israel preferred by undermining its self-restraint in the face of repeated and murderous Israeli cross-border attacks, and terminating </span><a href="https://misskey.cloud/tags/PLOEfforts" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PLOEfforts</a><span> to move towards a peaceful political settlement, intolerable to both major Israeli political coalitions. There was ample evidence on these matters from Israeli sources at the time Johnson produced these typically inane comments. See </span><a href="https://misskey.cloud/tags/FatefulTriangle" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FatefulTriangle</a><span>, Pirates &amp; Emperors, and </span><a href="https://misskey.cloud/tags/NecessaryIllusions" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NecessaryIllusions</a><span>.</span></blockquote><span>...</span><blockquote><span>.&gt; The greatest accomplishment of Reagan is supposed to be that he made us "feel good about ourselves," restoring the faith in authority, which had sadly flagged. As the editors of the Wall Street Journal put it, "he restored the efficiency and morale of the armed services [and] demonstrated the will to use force in Grenada and Libya" -- two military fiascos, but no matter. We were able to kill a sufficient number of people and are once again "standing tall," towering over the upstarts who had sought to overcome us but who succumbed to the cool courage and "the strength of the Cowboy" -- the words of British journalist Paul Johnson, while swooning over the manliness of his idol Ronald Reagan, who had in reality shown the courage of a Mafia don who sends a goon squad to break the bones of children in a Kindergarten. With these achievements, Reagan overcame our "sickly inhibitions against the use of military force," Norman Podhoretz intoned. ^n27</span></blockquote><span> - </span><a href="https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/zbooks/htdocs/chomsky/dd/dd-contents.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/zbooks/htdocs/chomsky/dd/dd-contents.html</a><span><br> - </span><a href="https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/zbooks/htdocs/chomsky/dd/dd-c02-s07.html#SEC2.5" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/zbooks/htdocs/chomsky/dd/dd-c02-s07.html#SEC2.5</a><span><br><br> </span><a href="https://misskey.cloud/tags/NoamChomsky" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoamChomsky</a><span> in </span><a href="https://misskey.cloud/tags/DeterringDemocracy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeterringDemocracy</a><span> on </span><a href="https://misskey.cloud/tags/PaulJohnson" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PaulJohnson</a><span> </span><a href="https://misskey.cloud/tags/NormanPodhoretz" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NormanPodhoretz</a><span> in </span><a href="https://misskey.cloud/tags/WSJ" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WSJ</a><span> </span><a href="https://misskey.cloud/tags/WallStreetJournal" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WallStreetJournal</a><span> </span><a href="https://misskey.cloud/tags/PiratesAndEmperors" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PiratesAndEmperors</a><p></p>