Obama Is Mishandling the Middle East Bloodletting

Martin Peretz, TNR
This is a subject about which we’re not supposed to speak. Or write. Well, I suppose we can allude. But not in detail. So, even though bloodletting is a daily occurrence in the orbit of Islam, discussing it is forbidden. At least among the sensitive, the sensitive left most notably. By which I mean, firstly, folk who think of themselves as universal souls but see others, Americans and Brits, French and Germans, Italians and Dutch, also the bulk of English speakers wherever they are, as retrograde. Patriots, for God’s sake, patriotism being not only a dirty concept but a...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/12/12/obama_is_mishandling_the_middle_east_bloodletting_269030.html

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