Middle East Experts, pt. I

So I was reading a some bloodthirsty oped about bombing/starving/nuking Iran in the LA Times written by some guy named John Hannah, charmingly called "Cripple Iran to Save It." And what do you know, that guy "works" at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and his big source for the essay is this other guy Karim Sadjadpour from the Middle East Policy Council.

Anyway here is the Board of Directors of the Middle East Policy Council. Note the presence of everyone's favorite conspirators: Exxon, i-bankers, the CIA, the Binladin Group, security firms, etc. Really the only thing missing is the jar with Hitler's brain in it.

All you really need to know about the Washington Institute for Near East Policy is:

- Marty "do not fuck with the Jews" Peretz is on its "board of advisors"

- One of its "scholars" is noted maniac Daniel Pipes.

And so these guys just get to source everything to each other and publish their war pornography everywhere, and no one really cares that much. There's pretty much an infinite supply of these people, since if you are willing to say this sort of thing in public, you are pretty much guaranteed a nice job in DC with great reception attendance opportunities.