Charles Freeman is not a brilliant "contrarian," as his remaining supporters are
especially hooked on saying. (Actually, just like his son says, poor man.) He is what Martin Kramer calls a cringer.
In
fact, many of his pronunciamentos are not contrarian at all. They express what
the people to whom he was posted wanted him to think and say. At minimum, to
say.
Attached to Kramer's latest Sandbox blog is an earlier one to which
you can link, "Freeman and 9/11." It contains a photo of the very
self-satisfied Saudi princeling Alwaleed and the nervous, hands-folded Chas
Freeman asking the royal for cash.