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Michael Ledeen, the man who urged America to “to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall” every decade, met an end that many of his critics would call overdue. On May 17, 2025, Ledeen died at the age of 83. marking the passing of one of the last influential Jewish neoconservatives of his generation.
Ledeen obtained a Ph.D. in History and Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he studied under the Jewish German-born historian George Mosse. He took a particular interest in Italian fascism and wrote a doctoral dissertation that eventually became “Universal Fascism: The Theory and Practice of the Fascist International, 1928–1936,” published in 1972, which explored Benito Mussolini’s efforts to create a Fascist international in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
His academic career began at Washington University in St. Louis, where he was an assistant professor of history from 1967–1973, before becoming a visiting professor at the University of Rome from 1973–1977. Ledeen authored over 35 books throughout his career, including works on fascism, European history, and Middle Eastern politics.
His influence was most felt in the realm of national security though. Throughout his career, Ledeen held multiple advisory roles within the U.S. government, including as a consultant to the National Security Council, a special advisor to the Secretary of State, a consultant to the Department of Defense, and a consultant to the under-secretary of political affairs. Ledeen was an active member of numerous think tanks and regime-change advocacy organizations such as the U.S. Committee for a Free Lebanon, Coalition for Democracy in Iran (CDI), American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD). Additionally, he has been published in numerous philosemitic conservative outlets such as the National Review, Wall Street Journal, and the Weekly Standard. His influence extended beyond formal roles. According to the Washington Post, he was the only “full-time” international affairs analyst frequently consulted by Karl Rove, the chief strategist of then-President George W. Bush.
Ledeen’s career was not free of controversy, however. In 1980, Ledeen co-authored articles with Belgian-American journalist Arnaud de Borchgrave in The New Republic alleging Jimmy Carter’s brother, Billy Carter, accepted payments from Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi and met with PLO leader Yasser Arafat. He made those same assertions before a Senate subcommittee as the 1980 presidential election quickly approached. These claims, published weeks before the presidential election, reignited the “Billygate” scandal.
A 1985 Wall Street Journal investigation later confirmed that the stories were part of a disinformation campaign executed by Italy’s military intelligence agency (SISMI) to hurt Carter’s presidential re-election campaign. Italian intelligence officer Francesco Pazienza testified that Ledeen received $120,000 for his role and operated under the codename “Z-3.” Pazienza, who was convicted for extortion in connection to the operation, described Ledeen as a key figure behind the dissemination of false narratives.
Additionally, Ledeen was heavily involved in the Iran-Contra affair during the Reagan administration. As a consultant to National Security Advisor Robert McFarlane, Ledeen facilitated back-channel communications between U.S. officials, Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, and Iranian arms dealer Manucher Ghorbanifar. In this case, the Reagan administration was clandestinely negotiating hostage releases in Lebanon via arms sales to Iran, a scheme that bypassed Congressional oversight and later became a major scandal. Ledeen defended Ghorbanifar despite widespread skepticism about his reliability, subsequently detailing his perspective in the book “Perilous Statecraft.” While he never faced criminal charges, Ledeen’s role in Iran-Contra showcased his willingness to operate in the shadows, ethics be damned.
Like many Jews in the neoconservative movement, Ledeen has a long career of advocating for regime change in the Middle East.
Ledeen was one of the most vocal Jewish neoconservatives lobbying for the removal of Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein. Along with other neoconservative luminaries such as Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz, Ledeen signed “An Open Letter to the President” in 1998, urging Bill Clinton to topple Iraq’s Baathist regime.
Similar to other Jewish officials in the national security establishment, Ledeen was an unapologetic champion of using hard military power. Jewish neoconservative journalist Jonah Goldberg coined the “Leeden Doctrine” after reflecting on a speech he attended in the 1990s at the American Enterprise Institute. In that speech, Ledeen was alleged to have said:
Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business.
In the lead-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Ledeen was one of the most energetic proponents of using military force against the country. Ledeen wrote a piece at the National Review critical of former national security adviser Brent Scowcroft, who advised against invading Iraq. Instead of exercising restraint, Ledeen called for turning the entire Middle East “into a cauldron”, as he explained in more detail:
Scowcroft has managed to get one thing half right, even though he misdescribes it. He fears that if we attack Iraq “I think we could have an explosion in the Middle East. It could turn the whole region into a caldron and destroy the War on Terror.”
One can only hope that we turn the region into a cauldron, and faster, please. If ever there were a region that richly deserved being cauldronized, it is the Middle East today. If we wage the war effectively, we will bring down the terror regimes in Iraq, Iran, and Syria, and either bring down the Saudi monarchy or force it to abandon its global assembly line to indoctrinate young terrorists.
Ledeen’s hawkish stance on Iran was also a lifelong constant. He labeled the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini a “theocratic fascist”, and as Jewish political commentator Peter Beinart observed about Ledeen’s Middle Eastern political analysis, every problem in the region “traces back to Tehran.” Despite opposing a direct invasion of Iran in his later years, Ledeen championed aggressive support for Iranian dissidents and preemptive strikes against nuclear facilities if diplomacy failed to get Iran to kowtow to the United States.
Michael Ledeen’s death marks the end of a career that Jewish journalist Eli Lake described as one of “America’s most courageous historians and journalists.” His friend David Goldman, a Jewish international relations commentator associated with the Claremont Institute, wrote that Ledeen’s “personal contribution to America’s victory in the Cold War is far greater than the public record shows.”
Ledeen’s legacy is undeniably one and steadfast advocacy for Jewish interests within the American conservative movement. For those who saw his influence as a barrier to a more authentically gentile Right, his passing, like David Horowitz’s, may indeed be viewed as an opportunity for change as more of the Jewish founders of neoconservatism and their progeny exit the plane of the living.
For this author, Ledeen will certainly not be missed.
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Another Neoconservative Bites the Dust: The Life and Legacy of Michael Ledeen
Thank god this Jewish scum of humanity is in his grave. All the genocidal Jewish mafia members including Assassin Trump, Kushner, Netanyahu, Witkoff must follow suit to put them in their graves now. Micheal Ledeen was in charge of Iran’s destruction through destabilization of the country fabricating terrorists as ‘secessionist groups’ like the kurd, the arab, the women, the cows, and the the pigs, to bring down Iran and its civilization since the Jews and evil UK-US who are supporting and funding them never had their own civilization, only massacre, terrorism, assassination, rape, and looting their victims, is their legacy.
Trump is one of the genocidal Jewish mafia who should be arrested and executed as a genocidal assassin and a thief, NOW. He is at the whore house to promote the interests of the Jewish mafia where he is a member of, and he wears their BLUE FLAG around his neck, like a dog with his collar, to show to whom his true allegiance is.
He is not one of the last, why are you misleading the public? are you a jewish mafia member trying to fool the public?
There are plenty of these criminals exist in Washington DC and elsewhere in the criminal West, one of them is Trump. He and his illiterate and genocidal jewish mafia member of the family, Witkoff, who knows shit about policy and diplomacy, has been chosen by the Jewish Neocons like baby killer Netanyahu, to do ‘diplomacy’ with Iran on his legal nuclear program. He knows SHIT about ‘diplomacy’. He has been, nothing but a SELLER all his life. Now, he has been given a position of power to kill others to help his tribe to bring ‘greater Israel’. We want these genocidal jewish mafia members be arrested and executed as traitors, traitors, traitors and genocidal assassin and terrorists.
Now, everyone should go to Ledeen’s grave and give him a good amount of shit enough to sleep with food so he be able to stay there for ever. The rest of the mafia tribe members must follow suit now.
The genocidal Jewish mafia members in Israel are FAKE ‘jew’, their history is F for FAKE where must fuck off from the stolen land now.
Here is another Western genocidal faggot who didn’t have enough time to check his behind after his action with another genocidal terrorist faggot, Macron.
In Hell, Ledeen’ll have good company.
Sometimes Death is good news, when pure evil is removed from the world. Such a man was the Fascist/Zionist, Michael Ledeen. He has been central to every Neoconservative plot against the American people since Nixon. I researched and wrote the following in 2007, as W was threatening war with Iran, Neoconservatism – Fascist Zionism
https://therearenosunglasses.wordpress.com/2020/01/09/neoconservatism-fascist-zionism-written-as-bush-threatened-war-with-iran-2007/
First of all, I didn’t know that Ledeen was a Jew. I first came across him on David Horowitz’s site Front Page. I thought maybe he was some sort of crazy Lebanese Christian, like Brigitte Gabriel, who definitely has an anti-Muslim bias & an unwavering love for Israel. I was wrong. It’s funny -now both Ledeen & Horowitz are kvetching together on that big Bagel in the Sky. Maybe I’m not very good at naming the Jew! LOL. As I’ve said before, I pretty much started to get politicized after 9/11. Ten years previously, we had the Gulf War and it’s aftermath. Uncle Schmuley demanded that we kick the shit out of Saddam Hussein because he lobbed a few Exocet missiles that hit Tel Aviv and killed 4 Hadassah ladies playing mah jong. Clinton, rather than sending in ground troops, had the American Air Force bomb the shit out of Iraqi infrastructure. Although Saddam’s rule continued, countless Iraqis died in this military action on Israel’s behalf. This did not sit well with me. 9/11 was a decade down the road, and the 1993 WTC bombing hadn’t happened. I needed to go through my Horowitz phase (coming across Ledeen’s writings as well), but it was people like Pat Buchanan who initially started to shape my political thinking. Later on I came across Kevin MacDonald and then this site (thank you Ron). So, here I sit with my mostly isolationist ass under me, and the rest of my accompanying thoughts in tow.
Just another corrupt, criminal, Satanic/Sociopathic Judeofascist, ultimately working for the Israeli government. They’re a dime a dozen now, in and out of U.S. government and think tank “service” and Neocon/Neolib/Zionist regime media/agitprop/propaganda and blood profiteering “private enterprise”.
Damned scum. Damned to hell.
thanks for this fine biography of this zioneocon demon scum, who is now back home in hell, hopefully being thrown up against the wall by his father, for having failed so badly in his efforts to enslave the world.
yet another signatory to the pnac manifesto and dirty ratfucker that has led to the demise of the zioneocon demon empire in a mere 25 years. it is hard to imagine how this group of imbeciles could have squandered such a huge advantage in military strength and technology and more importantly spent us into an unpayable 37 trillon dollar debt in a quarter century. the rest of the world owes them a bill of thanks for destroying this obscene cthulhu, of which the world once cowered in fear.
the russians and chinese played these fools brilliantly, biding their time and building advanced technologies, that have surpassed american systems, whose advance ended in the 90’s. in the last three years, the russians have revealed the former hegemon to be the paper tiger it is, on the battlefield and in the economic realm as well.
we are still left with these zionist scum, in charge of both political parties and they continue their self important pantomime but the rest of the world has seen through their charade, even if the poor stupid american tax payers have not. unfortunately we are the ones that will be stuck with the bill, as this country will be weimarize by the banksters behind the curtain, that have profited from it all.
Michael Ledeen is a Jewish mafai neocon who worked with criminals at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), a designated TERRORIST organization by Iran. He has called for waging a global war against “Islamofascists,” like ISIS, where Israel and US created, funded and supported to bring the West Asia with its resources under the control of the criminal West through terrorism, assassinations and GENOCIDE. He argued that jihadists and former communists are in an alliance against the United States, and once claimed that while in office President Barack Obama supported America’s enemies. Ledeen, who posed as a “democratic revolutionary,” in fact was Mafia intelligence services of the West including Italy, Israel and the US to bring ‘regime change’ and was deeply infolved in fabrication of information to fit a war against Muslims.
he was a liar who participated in dirty-tricks campaigns and the outright subversion of democracy—most famously as one of the instigators of the Iran-contra scheme. His criminal activities brought him into contact with many criminals: disinformation specialists, arms dealers, and coup plotters. Most importantly, he had long-standing ties with seedy operatives of the Italian intelligence agency SISMI (a Mafia terrorist org. like Mossad).
Although Ledeen opposed the Vietnam War to be able to organize for his tribe’s interest like other Jewish zionists who made name for themselves including chomsky, he found wars are necessary to expand the interest of the criminal Jewish mafia tribe to establish ‘greater Israel’.
In 1973, Ledeen’s academic career ended when he was denied tenure at Washington University in St. Louis. He was dogged by plagiarism, which he denied—although he acknowledged that there had been questions about footnotes in an essay he wrote. Yet, the genocidal Jewish mafia Assassin, Netanyahu, posted a long eulogy praising Ledeen as a “great scholar.” All lies.
The end of Ledeen’s career as a tenure-track academic spurred him to reinvent himself as a public intellectual with ties to spy agencies like Mossad and CIA, and powerful politicians. He taught at the University of Rome from 1973 to 1977, (poor Italians) and it was during those years that he made contact with the Italian spy agency SISMI, which would play an important part in his career fabricating FAKE NEWS for Iraq war, the Yellow CAKE, to wage a war against Iraqi people to kill millions of them, and made millions more as refugees, now the organge says don’t come to US, in order to promote the interests of the criminal ‘Jewish’ tribe.
In 2005, Jeffrey Goldberg, Ledeen’s fellow neocon and Iraq war supporter, coined what he called the “Ledeen doctrine”: “Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business.”
In 1987, The Washington Post called attention to Ledeen’s connections with Francesco Pazienza, a senior SISMI official. According to the Post:
In 1980, right-wing terrorists bombed a train station in Bologna, killing 80 people and injured over 200. In 1995, Pazienza was convicted of participating in a cover-up that attempted to blame the bombing on a left-wing group.Pazienza’s criminal activities also brought him into contact with Ledeen. As The Wall Street Journal reported in 1985:
Mr. Pazienza says that Mr. Ledeen sometimes worked for Italian intelligence and received at least $120,000 from SISMI, plus expenses, in 1980 or 1981. At least some of the money was paid into a Bermuda bank account, Mr.Pazienza says. At SISMI, Mr. Pazienza says, Mr. Ledeen warranted a coded identification: Z-3. Michael Ledeen says he was never called Z3 “that I can remember.” He says a consulting firm he owned, ISI, undertook work for SISMI either late in 1980 or early in 1981 and the price “may well have been $100,000, I can’t remember.” SISMI may have paid another fee for other work in 1980, Mr. Ledeen says. He says his travel expenses were also paid. And he says, “I had, I think, for a period of a few months, a personal account in Bermuda.” He declines to discuss further “any of my personal finances.” As it is obvious, the Jewish mafia criminal activities are carried out at the PHONY ‘consulting firm, or ‘think thanks’, all criminals and terrorist organization where should be outlawed. Ledeen’s role as an instigator of Iran-contra clarifies his hostility to democracy.According to a 2017 Senate report, Ledeen “appears to have played a key role in the initial contacts between the U.S. and Israel vis-à-vis Iran.” Unlike other players in the scandal, Ledeen was cagey enough to get out of the loop after his original instigation, so he avoided any criminal charges. It is good that he is finally in his resting place, but he leaves many criminals like him behind who are pampering the new CONMAN, trump to wage another war for the interest of the Jewish criminal and genocidal tribe.
The last of HIS bunch of neocons.
You can bet he helped the NEXT generation’s insect looters on their way up the ladder. They’ve been doing that for many years.
All a person living in Brooklyn needs to do to get politicized (Jew awareness) on a smaller scale is take the 5 train to Borough Park. A city within a city, 100,000 Hasidic Jews carrying out their evil machinations day in and day out. Cybercrime, money laundering, insurance fraud, Ponzi schemes etc. They answer to no one and are a law (Talmudic) unto themselves. It’s well known that there’s a pedophile “rat line” between Borough Park and Tel Aviv. How much power does the Hasidim have? Famous cult members include Jared and Ivanka. When Hasidic crime boss Menachem Schneerson died, President Donald Trump saw fit to pay his respects, at his grave site.
Wikipedia:
So, what about a military funeral? Flags at half staff for a week or three?
After all, this man seems to have spent his adult life weaponizing the United States of America.
He was a culprit.
Michael Ledeen, Max Boot, David Wurmser, Douglas Feith, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, John Deutch, Elliot Abrams, Irving Kristol, William Kristol, Norman Podhoretz, John Podhoretz, Midge Decter, David Frum, Robert Kagan, Donald Kagan, Frederick Kagan, Joe Lieberman, Victoria Nuland, Kenneth Adelman, Eliot Cohen, Eric Edelman, Evelyn Farkas, David Kramer, Lewis Libby, Randy Scheunemann, David Brooks, Jonah Goldberg, Jeffrey Goldberg, David Horowitz, Charles Krauthammer, Daniel Pipes, Richard Pipes, Ben Shapiro, Mark Levin, Bret Stephens, Madeleine Albright, Dennis Prager, Joshua Muravchik, Yuval Levin, Irwin Stelzer, Eli Lake, Danielle Pletka, Michael Rubin, David Rubin, Ruth Wisse, Alan Dershowitz, Arnan Milchan, Amos Hochstein, Antony Blinken, Jonathan Pollard, Jonathan Greenblatt, Mark Potok, Rabbi Schmuley Boteach, Rabbi Michael Barclay, Rabbi Meir Kahane, Philip Zelikow, Dov Zakheim, Robert Zoelick, Abraham Foxman, Bill Ackman, Ben Nitai (Benjamin Netanyahu, when he lived in the US), Alexander Vindman, Yevgeny Vindman, Zvi Malkin, Jules Kroll, Maurice Greenberg, Jeffrey Greenberg, Michael Chertoff, Michael Mukasey, Larry Silverstein, Lew Eisenberg, Boaz Harel, Eliot Spitzer, Alvin Hellerstein, Joseph Hellerstein, Kenneth Feinberg, Sheila Birnbaum, Sigal Mandelker, Wendy Sherman …
Ah, these scions of pilgrims, revolutionary war patriots, frontiersmen, Confederate and Union soldiers, the fallen of WW I and II — pure Americana!
All Jews are, to a man, “brilliant,” “geniuses,” “ahead of their times.” Ask any supposed Christian Republican in Congress and he or she will confirm it after getting approval from his or her AIPAC minder. The dorks at National Review are probably flying the flag at half mast with the lost of this enemy within.
Ledeen: “Stability is an unworthy American mission and a misleading concept to boot…We do not want stability in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, or even Saudi Arabia. … The issue is not whether but how to DESTABILIZE.”
And.. two former CIA officers (Vincent Cannistraro and Phil Giraldi) believe that Ledeen was responsible for the forged document showing Iraq’s attempt to purchase “yellow cake” from Niger.
Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson teaches that non-jews are “no better than worms; not really living beings at all, but already ‘dead’; all to be forcibly converted or subjugated by the ‘Messiah,’ whose arrival it is their sacred duty to hasten.” “An even greater difference exists in regard to the soul. Two contrary types of soul exist, a non-Jewish soul comes from three satanic spheres, while the Jewish soul stems from holiness.”
Rabbi Schneerson was posthumously given a Congressional Gold Medal at a White House ceremony. Sponsor: Jewish Congressman Charles Schumer. (Introduced 05/25/1994)