Robert Caruso, a journalist and former bureaucrat who writes on foreign policy, wrote in a conversation on Twitter with Syrian activist Partisangirl that he would “enjoy [her] beloved Syria being torn apart with violence”:

After he began to catch flak for it, Caruso denied having written the tweet, despite the fact that it had already been archived:

If someone else had tweeted an analogous comment about Israel rather than Syria, something tells us that Caruso would not be satisfied with the sort of paper-thin excuse quoted above. Then again, no one should be satisfied with such a denial; it’s an outright lie, as other Twitter users pointed out.

There are some similar tweets that Caruso revealingly didn’t delete:

As Partisangirl notes, Caruso wrote last month that it was necessary to “create a new Middle East”—calling for support for Sunni and Kurdish forces on the one hand and opposition not only to IS but to Shiite forces on the other. What does Caruso have against Syrians and Shia Muslims, anyway? Caruso’s bio at the Huffington Post might provide a hint or two:

Robert Caruso has appeared in The Guardian, The Boston Globe, Business Insider, The Daily Beast, Buzzfeed, and The Jerusalem Post. He served with a Joint Task Force, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Bureau of Diplomatic Security at the Department of State, and the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR). Robert is a veteran of the United States Navy and deployed to support Operation IRAQI FREEDOM and ENDURING FREEDOM.

Robert Caruso is a great example of the kind of person our media-academic-political class selects for—the kind with more interest in intimidating others with his credentials than in the fact that he has been caught lying—and there are people who take him seriously.

  • Ted Cunterblast

    Robert Caruso is a pussy.

    • Rudeforthought

      Oy vei! ‘Dis stereotypical characterizing of a kosher boy as a cowering weakling is racist and antisemetic. It’s anuddah’ shoah all ova again!

  • http://fanghornforest.wordpress.com The Reactionary Tree

    #GamerGate is quickly erupting into a major cultural war. The likes of Gawker & Buzzfeed have been unable to contain it so the Cathedral called in the likes of MSNBC to run a hit piece on GG. The GamerGate folks are quite the grassroots coalition of centrists, gamers, atheists, manosphere guys, MRAs, Breitbart, and the neoreactionaries.

  • Rudeforthought

    enjoyed being attacked by #GamerGatearmy, especially the amateur photoshopping and hacking into my gmail accounts and twitter
    — Robert Caruso (@robertcaruso)

    Is this that famed Ashkenazi intelligence I keep hearing about? Obvious shill is obvious.

  • immoderator

    Caruso is a part of the influential foreign policy class who are subverting America’s war on terror against the Sunni terrorists who attacked the USA on 9/11 to a war on Israel’s prime adversary, the Shia regime in Iran. Phillip Smyth and Michael Weiss are two other American anti-Iran activists surreptitiously working on behalf of Israel
    against Iran under the pretense of being loyal Americans.