I don't know what to say about that William. Anything I have seen Horowitz write on the Middle East is gross oversimplification and, with the Palestinians, a total disregard for the general population and a total embrace of collective guilt and punishment. His opinions on any of the periods in Iraq that I am most well grounded in (historically) are usually pulled out of talking point style propaganda lists so I find it hard to believe that. I did a fair amount of public speaking on Iraq before the war and I usually pissed everybody in the audience off (except the few Iraqi ex-pats that would show up). I don't have the same grounding in post 2005 stuff but I find his approach to any area he mouths off about that I am familiar with fairly suspect. Of course, I find his basic worldview pretty foul and I don't much care for him as a person so I agree, I am a poor discussion companion. I am happy to bow out here unless something useful comes up to add to it. No worries about letting the thread slide. I am pretty buried in another project anyway. This is my way of procrastinating on that. Ha!
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