This is a guest post by Edward P. Joseph. A leading commentator on international affairs, Joseph is the author of the essay The Open Society and Its Critics: Minorities and Political Lobbying in the United States, a critique of the “Israel Lobby” thesis, published on Z Word in February 2008.

Poor David Broder. He - and so many others - have missed the point of the whole Charles Freeman flap. The point is not Freeman’s character or his many capabilities or even whether or not Freeman got a “fair hearing.” The harsh truth is that nothing in our system guarantees potential appointees to high office a “fair hearing.”

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