Jules Crittenden’s talkin’ to you:

If and when the United States begins firing cruise missiles at Iran’s WMD sites, I highly doubt President Bush will know their serial numbers or exactly which ship fired which missile. When Apache attack helicopters, F-16s and American and Iraqi boots on the ground finally shut down the Iran-Iraq border, I highly doubt our president will know the serial numbers of the Hellfires and the 25mm Bushmasters and the M-4s, or the precise routes by which they arrived their, or the names of those pulling the triggers.  But the source of those Tomahawks, Hellfires, HEAT rounds and .556 rounds will be apparent. I hope one of them has Ahmadinejad’s name on it.  I doubt that will happen, but that would be very entertaining.

He’s got a few choice words for some folks on our shores too:

Here are some people who are going to need a big Bugs Bunny-style “Here’s the Wabbit” sign point at A’jad before they’ll be ready to pull any triggers. 

There is a great unsolved mystery that is nagging at me. When Tony Judt and other deeply-concerned-about-their-brethren, non-anti-Semitic Jews suggest that Israel should become a bi-national state, where should all those newly stateless Wandering Jews go?

That question had been keeping me up nights as I wondered how I could fit my deep distress for the stateless Palestinians into my Leftist-and-deeply-sympathetic-to-Israel worldview.

Now I can report that I am finally at peace. I am sure to be able to sleep well tonight, for the first time in years, because I found the answer.

China, it seems, is a nation of philo-Semites—at least they’re philo about the Jews’ enviable talent for making money:

SHANGHAI — Showcased in bookstores between biographies of Andrew Carnegie and the newest treatise by China’s president are stacks of works built on a stereotype.

One promises “The Eight Most Valuable Business Secrets of the Jewish.”

Another title teases readers with “The Legend of Jewish Wealth.” A third provides a look at “Jewish People and Business: The Bible of How to Live Their Lives.”

Also:

Positive stereotypes about Jews and their supposed business prowess have given the Jewish community iconic status in the eyes of the Chinese public.

Israelis: get thee to Shaghai! (again)

p.s. The writer who filed this report for the WaPo, Ariana Eunjung Cha, helpfully explains that

[i]n the United States, where making broad generalizations about races, cultures or religions has become unacceptable in most circles, the titles of some of these books might make people cringe. Throughout history and around the world, even outwardly innocuous and broadly accepted characterizations of Jews have sometimes formed the basis for eventual campaigns of violent anti-Semitism.

I’m curious about who the intended audience for this remark is. (Ms. Enjung Cha lists her credential as “Washington Post Foreign Service.”)

Broad generalizations about Jews—albeit via code words: “neocon,” “Likudnik,” “cabal,” “AIPAC,” “influence,” “agent,” “dual loyalties,” and “New York money people” come immediately to mind—are all the rage. Particularly on the left, and particularly in the leftosphere.

John Judis and Matthew Yglesias might want to take note of this. But then they may be caught up in the War on Martin Peretz, which is so much more important.