There is a lot that is right here. There is also a depressing willingness to buy into Jewish conspiracy theories. David Frum has largely been drummed out of the Republican Party. Kristol and Stephens have been strongly anti-Trump for Republicans. And the only thing that guides Trump on who to listen to is whether or not they suck up to him. So the idea that this is a list of the people driving Trump's decision is absurd. The idea that the neo-cons supported the Iraq War because of Israel rather than because of their view of how the US should project power is also nonsense.
That is to say that there is no reason to think the neo-cons are who are influencing Trump's decision, and while the neo-cons did push the Iraq War (although only some of them were Jewish) there is no reason to think that this was not what they thought (stupidly) was best for the US. Of course the Iraq invasion wasn't actually good for Israel either.
There is a lot that is right here. There is also a depressing willingness to buy into Jewish conspiracy theories. David Frum has largely been drummed out of the Republican Party. Kristol and Stephens have been strongly anti-Trump for Republicans. And the only thing that guides Trump on who to listen to is whether or not they suck up to him. So the idea that this is a list of the people driving Trump's decision is absurd. The idea that the neo-cons supported the Iraq War because of Israel rather than because of their view of how the US should project power is also nonsense.
That is to say that there is no reason to think the neo-cons are who are influencing Trump's decision, and while the neo-cons did push the Iraq War (although only some of them were Jewish) there is no reason to think that this was not what they thought (stupidly) was best for the US. Of course the Iraq invasion wasn't actually good for Israel either.