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Joe Klein Defends Chas Freeman Against "Rabid" Jewish Opposition

Joe Klein Defends Chas Freeman Against "Rabid" Jewish Opposition
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I've been loathe to join the argument about whether the veteran diplomat Chas Freeman should be hired to lead the National Intelligence Council. I don't know the man, am only vaguely aware of his reputation--very smart but unothodox, a bit too close to the Saudis, a root canal 'realist' whose cold analysis of the Tiananmen uprising suggested that the Chinese government would have been better served to nip the student uprising 'in the bud.'

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