No problem, Andrew. I just object to "long-time pundit" being labeled "disingenuous" when everything Bill and you say proves the truth of it. I'm not saying you should let him or François Hollande or Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton or John McCain or Benjamin Netanyahu or Barack Obama con you into fighting another war there. In any case, this is highly contested territory. Some scholarship is funded by foreign sources, adding a cause for skepticism. There are incompatible traditions of interpretation. Temperament even enters into it. Some people like Karen Armstrong on the subject, for example. Bill
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