[R. Nemo Hill]

Thanks for that, Andrew.

Nemo

[Janice D. Soderling]

That is a Camus book I haven't read. Thanks!

[Andrew Mandelbaum]

Hey Janice. There is a book of his writings from Combat that contains the whole essay. It is also online in several places. Have you read his writings on Algeria from Resistance, Rebellion, and Death? I love that stuff of his.
Arendt once wrote Karl Jasper's and Henri Blucher about Camus saying " I have met Camus. I think he is the best [one] in France."

[Bill Carpenter]

Bill L.,
You've got to be kidding. Pipes has been publishing books and articles on Mid-Eastern matters since the 80's. He has published in the NY Times, the Atlantic, Harper's, the LA Times, and scores of other publications. He is a long-time pundit, just as I said. I didn't give Janice a Surgeon-General's warning about who hates him and who likes him, because she was entirely capable of evaluating the article for herself. I'm not endorsing everything he's written, which I haven't read and which has served political purposes, but he's as much a long-time pundit as others in the field you may like. Bill

Bio:
http://www.danielpipes.org/bios/

[Andrew Mandelbaum]

Hey Bill.
I worked pretty intensely organizing around the sanctions issues and human rights in Iraq during the late nineties and early two thousands. Everytime Pipes wrote about something closely involved with he distorted the facts and manipulated to push his own prescriptions without any noticeable sorrow for Arab lives lost. I think he's one of the Certain. Just sayin'.

[Bill Carpenter]

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

[John Whitworth]

Imagine it funded by foreign sources! If it is funded by America, that's quite a different thing. Smug and self-satisfied, quite Obama-like.

And now we know the attacks were 'executed by the CIA'. Who says so? The Russians, of course they do. But also an American Professor called Doctor Paul Craig Roberts who writes for something called The Wall Street Journal. Now all is clear. It wasn't the poor old muslims at all. We must all take a Syrian family into our spare rooms

[Brian Allgar]

Don, I can't for the life of me imagine how you can interpret the question and the response to mean that people think Hollande has gone too far. I haven't found the original article, but as you present it, it can only mean that they think he hasn't done enough.

[Janice D. Soderling]

A president to be proud of.

https://www.facebook.com/WhiteHouse/...19238/?fref=nf

[Brian Allgar]

Yes, indeed, Janice. An excellent speech.

Now let's hear from The-Man-Who-Would-Be-President. (You'll need to scroll down to get the video itself.) If this man is elected President, I'm emigrating to Syria.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...rmed-guns.html