A reader brings this Middle
A reader brings this Middle East Media Research Institute article from December of 2001 to my attention. In it, Benny Morris--author of the fat and mostly balanced treatment of the Arab-Israeli conflict, "Righteous Victims"--essentially denies his previous, left-leaning support of the notion of total Israeli agression and Palestinian victimization.
This is what happens when a movement hits the same violent note again, and again, and again. They lose any support they might have had, as their barbarity makes even theoretical sympathy untenable. I am simply amazed at the Islamist mindset, the death-orientation, the sheer medievalism. I'm beginning to agree mightily with Our Man Pat Buchanan: just leave them alone. Let them suffer and die in their own struggle to achieve democracy. Let them establish their theocracies, and then let the oppressed populace rise up and throw them down. Let the people see what happens when we totally withdraw all of our support from them. Let them experience the chaos of their own inept leaders and the fiendish results of their own primitive mindsets.
