Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Time's up!
Marc Lynch finds the perfect metaphor for the "surge" on al Jazeera
And to think, I used to make this guy's lunch. Sheesh. What an odd world. ¶ 11:03 PM
... one of the tribal shaykhs is asked how many of the tribes currently cooperating with the US used to be fighting the US. His response: "Your time is up. It's $100 for an extra minute."In case you are not aware of Dr. Lynch, he is a Middle East scholar at GWU (formerly of Williams) and is considered one of the leading Western interpreters of Modern Arab thought. He is worth paying attention to if you want to understand the big picture.
And to think, I used to make this guy's lunch. Sheesh. What an odd world. ¶ 11:03 PM
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An interesting sidenote: Mr. Lynch uses images of Cerebus the Aardvark in his masthead - one of the greatest comic books ever produced, the brainchild of a partly-Muslim unhinged woman-hating conservative was formerly a swinging drunk and acquaintance of mine named Dave Sim. I'd be equally curious as to Lynch's take on Sim's insane political rantings and ravings and long, intolerable essays on Islam.
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