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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (41355)9/1/2002 12:16:56 PM
From: Win Smith  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
I think I get more than enough of the flavor of Patai's "thought" from the local echoes, thank you. The overlap is in people, not in logic. The contradiction was the point. On one side of the "argument", such as it is, the neocons are happy to embrace Patai-style Arab/Muslim stereotypes when it serves their purposes. On the other side, they're willing to assert that not only will the "Democracy in Iraq" operation go off smoothly, once it happens it'll spread like wildfire through the mideast.

It's nice that the neocons aren't troubled by the famous hobgoblin of small minds, but it doesn't exactly strengthen their case under conventional standards of debate.
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