in their own words

Stephen Walt at a meeting with the Dallas Morning News editorial board [e.a.]:

[T]here is a conventional wisdom in the United States about the state of Israel that we are challenging. And that conventional wisdom tends to portray Israel in the most positive light. … We don’t love Israel.

You don’t say!

Walt again:

[W]hat policies should the United States be adopting vis-à-vis Israel and the other countries in the region, and in particular, what should the United States be doing when Israel’s conduct or actions are contrary not only to American interests, but to American values?

Now, hold on a minute. I thought international relations “realists” such as these esteemed “scholars” are interested only in a nation’s interests, not its morals.

Whatever. While Walt and Mearsheimer try to sort out their antipathy and hostility from their so-called “scholarship,” the rest of us will wait and see what President Hillary Clinton or President Rudy Giuliani—and their successors of the next few decades—”do” with regard to Israel.