[lit-ideas] Re: The US Army in mutiny?
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 00:36:52 -0700 (PDT)
--- Lawrence Helm <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> No one can be an Arabist that hasn't lived with them
> for years.
*One would think so, yet Bernard Lewis, Martin Kramer,
Daniel Pipes and others have managed to pass
themselves as authorities on Islam and Arabs without
having ever lived in any Arab or Muslim countries. I
guess that we could refer to them as "New Arabists."
In regard to recent discussions he
> is perhaps more in
> sympathy with Fukuyama, Roy, & Kepel than with
> authors I find more credible.
*I thought that you find Fukuyama credible ? (You
seemed to until he started saying some things you
didn't want to hear, anyway.)
> But a great number of other very knowledgeable
> people such as Amir Taheri,
> Kenneth Timmerman, Jonathan Fenby, Bruce Bawer,
> Mohammad Mohaddessin, Ilan
> Berman, Claire Berlinski, Jean Bethke Elshtain,
> David Horowitz, Daniel
> Pipes, Bernard Lewis, Samuel P. Huntington, Thomas
> P. M. Barnett, Henry
> Munson, Jr., Victor Davis Hanson, Robert Kagan,
> Richard Miniter, George
> Friedman, Paul Berman, Bevin Alexander, and David
> Selbourne believe the
> administration is (more or less) on the right track.
*What's the point of this roll call ? Don't you think
that we can name intelligent people (assuming that the
ones you name above are) who agree with our views ?
O.K.
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