But Is It Good for the Gentiles?

Many years ago, Jewish Austrian Economics giant Murray Rothbard posed this question to Jewish neocon Norman Podhoretz:

“In his survey of the decades after 1945, Allitt mentions the new libertarians, including that interesting writer Murray Rothbard, author of For a New Liberty. He once wrote a ferocious attack on Podhoretz (enlivened with some choice Yiddish abuse of “this schmendrick”) in the now-defunct magazine Inquiry, in which he made an astute point. Podhoretz insisted on always asking “Is it good for the Jews?”; but what if, in response to this insistence, “American non-Jews, who are after all in the vast majority, begin to gauge foreign policy on the basis of the question: Is it good for the gentiles?” Some solipsistic neocons have yet to grasp that.”

(The Conservatives: Ideas and Personalities Throughout American History, by Patrick Allitt)

[Thanks to Justin Raimondo]

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3:07 pm on August 30, 2009