Saturday, December 27, 2008

A NYT tribute to a Zionist expert

You should read this tribute to Zionist Middle East expert, Bruce Riedel. You read it and get the misconception that this guy really knows what he is talking about. Let me help you here. In the mid-1990s, when he was the Middle East expert at Clinton's National Security Council, he gave an interview to Daniel Pipes' journal, Middle East Quarterly, in which he argued that there is no evidence that the Arab public is displeased with the US-imposed sanctions on Iraq.