New wisdom from Qadaffi: Israel is behind all of Africa's wars

Sure he’s coming from a place of frothing pathological hatred. The desire to find a central villain whose removal would solve everything the central impulse behind conspiracy theories.

But is the upshot really all that different from the central assumption of Obama’s Mideast foreign policy, which blames regional instability on the Israel-Palestinian conflict and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on insufficient Israeli concessions? There’s certainly not much daylight between Gaddafi’s garbage and Chas Freeman’s wild-eyed histrionics about “The Lobby” that controls US publishing and distorts the close alignment between the “values” of the US and Arab States.