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 Neocons never left. PNAC did not disappear; it de-centralized and diversified in US intel agencies? |
Islamophobia-beat reporter, Tim Murphy, has detailed on this site how Rep. Allen West (R-Fla) is championing a skewed, conspiratorial vision of Islam to convince Americans that we're under attack. I've written about the meager cultural training offered to service members and contractors headed for Iraq and Afghanistan. The materials would be humorous if they weren't so disturbing: In them Arab men look suspiciously like Lego figures; they're described as 'illogical or irrational,' paranoid, and prone to extremes, 'perhaps due to the harsh, desert environment that Arabs have lived in for thousands of years.' And that's just Iraqi Arabs--just wait 'til you read what they say about those dirty Kurds. All of which is to say that, 10 years after the US government got really preoccupied with Muslims of all stripes, from Iraqi Kurds, Sunnis, and Shiites to Afghan Pashtuns, Tajiks, Uzbeks... |
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Know your enemy
by John Shriver on Friday, Sep 16, 2011 at 9:31:52 AM
I know mine but do you know yours?
by Amanda Lang on Friday, Sep 16, 2011 at 2:44:32 PM
Know your enemy.
by Eugene Nunn on Friday, Sep 16, 2011 at 4:47:59 PM
Christian madrassas in AmeriKa.
by Amanda Lang on Saturday, Sep 17, 2011 at 3:43:30 AM
PNAC never went away. It has steadily grown.
by Eugene Nunn on Friday, Sep 16, 2011 at 4:39:34 PM