In seeking a "final solution" for Islam's Shia minority, I would argue that Powers is verymuch on the same page as World's Angriest Presbyterian John Bolton. Their *styles*, of course, differ, but you can't always get a pretty fireworks display with your mass murder ..
How is it in Washington's "strategic interest" to hand over a *secular* dictatorship to .. Salafist mercenaries? Max Boot's quaint nostalgia for the Cold War era finds him advocating the opposite of whatever Russia happens to be doing. Russia wishes to protect one of the oldest Christian communities in the world? Then we must support the (largely Wahhabi) forces who seek its destruction. Sad .. and inexcusably stupid.
Washington's position regarding genocide/mass murder is to .. allow it to take its course, then feel really *sorry* about it. We can expect a memorial to the exterminated Mideast Christian population and - who knows? - maybe the Shia as well in about 70 years ..
.. curious why Boot wishes to turn the mid.east region over to Wahhabis/Salafists/al-Qaeda. The natural bulwark against these .. aberrations is Iran, which a vocal minority (J. Bolton, M. Ledeen, Boot, ad nauseam) wishes to destroy utterly (Deuteronomy as template for genocide?). His recent opinions on Syria are even more fantastic: the West should back Salafist mercenaries to bring down a *secular* dictatorship. The victims, thus far, have been Syria's religious minorities, including Christians (a detail that seems lost on those Republicans who complain that Obama isn't trying hard enough to ruin that beseiged nation). In any case, it's hard to say what Boot means by "success" in terms of change in the Arab and/or Muslim world. One of his indexes is the availability of booze and hookers, which is to say that the world he seems most comfortable in bears remarkable resemblance to a frat house.
Michael Moore, of course, is a vainglorious lout. But even a broken clock sometimes gets it right: in Moore's case, the House of Saud *is* the problem. They are global sponsors of the Wahhabi cult, cousin-in-law to both al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Unfortunately, Saudi investment in American media is such that Moore will continue to be pillorized for all the wrong reasons ..
Interesting. What is Mz Geller's position on the Saudi Wahhabi cult's bid to take over global Islam and to dominate American media? As we speak, the UK and Hillary Clinton are arguing for an al-Qaeda coup in Syria ..
(if Horowitz is a "former Trotskyite," it is only because he has embraced full-on Stalinism ..)
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia must be eternally grateful to the likes of Pam Geller and Robert Spencer for distracting the nation with the specter of a "Ground Zero Mosque." Meanwhile, a $60 Billion arms deal is inked with the Saudis, one that enjoys broad bipartisan support. Where is the outrage? Saudi Arabia is the chief sponsor of terror in the region, from the hateful Wahhabi cult to the endless stream of suicide bombers pouring over the border into Iraq. The legacy of the "Pam an' Bob Show" - if they manage to leave one - will be that they snoozed along with the mainstream media they claim to be an alternative to.
Bill Kristol: from "Dan Quayle's brain" to "Midge Decter's penis" ..
I'm sure the story of your political journey from neo-Jacobin to, um, neo-Jacobin is fascinating. Meanwhile, the march of Saudi suicide-bombers into Iraq continues apace while the Media (you, CNN, etc.) refuse to call them what they are: Saudi nationals and/or followers of the 18th century Wahhabi cult. Now if only their Iranian rivals can be eliminated, they'll have the run of the Mideast. A brave new world, indeed.
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