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Ledeen writing on this subject?

As for Barbara Ledeen, an aide to Santorum at the Senate Republican Conference, she does seem to be involved in creating alliances:

Conservative Christians and Orthodox Jews “are just a natural alliance,” said Barbara Ledeen, an aide to Santorum at the Senate Republican Conference.

http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=13926

COURTING THE COMMUNITY:
Jewish defections irk Dems (Alexander Bolton, 3/30/04, The Hill)

“On the GOP side they’ve been very aggressive in courting the community,” said Nathan Diament, director of public policy at the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations. “The point person on the Senate side is Rick Santorum. Over the past two or three years they’ve been working the community and having a lot of meetings.”

Diament said Barbara Ledeen, the director of coalitions for the Senate Republican Conference, initiated the efforts.

Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.), who is Jewish, has also been active. He has traveled around the country “stumping in Jewish venues trying to convey a sense of why Republicans are more deserving of support,” said Diament.

http://www.thehill.com/news/033004/jewish.aspx

Personally, I find this interesting. I know Michael Ledeen has written extensively about Machiavelli, Nationalism and Fascism. I realize that Machiavellian philosophy advocates using religion to control the masses. What's going on here? Who's using who (whom?)?



Edited to add a note off subject but equally as interesting. Barbara Ledeen, apparently may have been responsible for Santorum and Hoekstra's WMD in Iraq claim a short while back:

It's also worth pointing out that a couple weeks back, I was told by a Republican Hill source with direct knowledge that the person who originally brought the "non-governmental source" with the recent "WMD in Iraq" claims to Hoekstra's attention was Barbara Ledeen, the director of coalitions at the National Republican Senatorial committee, headed by Sen. Santorum; calls to Santorum's office inquiring about that were not returned. (The strange thing is, when I spoke to Gaubatz after learning this, he said he had written Hoekstra independently, and first spoken to him by telephone on a conference call that was held in Weldon's office. He couldn't recall Barbara Ledeen at all. Which perhaps bolsters evidence that there's another source on the claims in the mix. Perhaps this fellow, former FBI translator William Tierney, who handed off some tapes to Hoekstra?) I suspect the trail to this whole saga runs through the people behind the "Intelligence Summit" chaired by John Loftus earlier this year, in which Loftus presented Gaubatz's and Tierney's claims as a major find. Several US government-connected people reportedly dropped out of the conference at the last minute, reportedly under the orders of DNI Negroponte, with whom Hoekstra seems to have a continuing gripe. Previous incarnations of the Intel summit have included Barbara Ledeen's husband on the advisory board...

http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/2006_07.html