British columnist Richard Ingrams is entitled to his views on Walt and Mearsheimer, but he’s still responsible to get the facts straight. He wrote in The Independent:
The professors demonstrate that the American invasion in 2003 not only had the support of Israel but also that the overriding aim of those (mostly Jewish) neocons who were urging Bush to invade was to assist Israel by getting rid of its menacing neighbour Saddam Hussein. The issue was stated quite simply by Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who said prior to the invasion: “When America succeeds in Iraq, Israel is safer.” Unfortunately, it didn’t work out like that.
Olmert did make such a statement in, uh, March, 2007.
