Fouad Ajami says that the battle to help the Pakistani army retake the Swat Valley – and save the soul of Pakistan – could use a little more sweep and a little less cynicism. An ideological underpinning, if you will.
Too bad we’re fresh out.
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Bagger » Helping PakistanBy lex, on May 26th, 2009
Fouad Ajami says that the battle to help the Pakistani army retake the Swat Valley – and save the soul of Pakistan – could use a little more sweep and a little less cynicism. An ideological underpinning, if you will. Too bad we’re fresh out. 2 comments to Helping Pakistan |
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Readers should note that Ajami has been made pretty much into a non-person by the MSM TV powers that be. Prior to 9/11 Ajami was the “go to guy” for most of the networks, (was even CBS’s “official” mid-east “expert, IIRC) Charlie Rose, etc., due to his encyclopedic knowledge of the region. Post 9/11 he unfortunately had the temerity to publicly and often voice the view that America was–to the amazement of many–NOT the fount of all the many evils to befall the middle-east in the last half-century, and was generally supportive of the Bush policy and a sometime advisor to Condi Rice. Dick Cheney also spoke favorably about him several times–thereby sealing his doom among the academy.
For his troubles Ajami all but disappeared from the nation’s TV screens shortly thereafter and has, as of yet to this day to be fully “rehabilitated.” Too bad the WSJ doesn’t have it’s own tv net-work–looks like the only way he’ll ever get back on much again–especially as he is a vocal and voluable critic of Obama and his foreign policy advisors.
Facts mean nothing to the left, VX, not a thing. Such ignorance is the font of evil in the world.