I hear this sort of thing from time to time, and I think it’s fascinating (asterisks mine, btw):

You’re an a**hole. Your logic is like that of a drunken driver who, after plowing into a bus of school kids, yells that the authorities should focus on saving the kids and not on wasting time finding the perpetrator of the crime who started it in the first place. Save Iraq! Support our troops! We know its a mess, but lets fix the problem not the blame. Its pathetic. The problem is that while the rich white boys started the war for money, it will be all too easy for them to place the blame on all the neocon (read jews) who supported and foisted this war on this country. As a Jew, I am first in line (as are you) to the ancient, time honored, blame it on the jews when the s**t hits the fan gameplan (and by the way it works…just look at the tripling of anti jewish hate crimes in Britain). In short, when they trot out all the articles written by you and kristol, kagan, perle etc. that were totally supportive of the war (and still are) it will only give fodder to the slogans of “the jews got us into this debacle.” When they come in the night, I will yell out your name you bastard, as well as curse the ignorance of those who’s anti semitism has been manipulated by those far wiser and crueler than you. In short, you are a dupe, and this stupidity on your part will come back to haunt the “good” jews who abhor the idiocy of the current strategy of war, but will be swept up in the hysteria of ridding the traitors who did this for Israel. May you and all like you find peace in the hell history will consign you to. You PUTZ.

Me: Now, as you can see, this is 100% persuasive and cannot be rebutted in any way. Even his use of apostrophes is beyond reproach. What I think is fascinating about it, however, is how the writer distributes blame and evil. This is a bad country, which launches wars for “money” and has a Holocaust up its sleeve. But at the same time, the folks who will inevitably round up the Jews are only behaving as they must given how the bad Jews (read: me) are giving them no choice. In short, because of people like me, the Jews are asking for it. Again, as I said it’s such an airtight argument it can’t be criticized from any angle. But we shouldn’t overlook just how classy his critique is. Update: From a reader:

Jonah,
Would it be terribly impolite to point out to your emailer that in his example (the school bus and the drunken driver) that the authorities would, in fact, focus on saving the kids, and ensure their safety, before they pursued the prosecution of the guilty party ? If his kid was on the bus would he prefer that the authorities leave him there bleeding while they cuff the drunken driver, cart him off to the police station, and begin filling out the arrest reports ?