[frog in a pot]

It appears his world view was shaped at colleges in New York and more recently the cocktail circuit in Austin, Texas. Your ‘paid off” and my “intellectually dishonesty” would both seem to apply to this article.

Kiteflying = …Washington has been in a confrontation with the Islamic world, which consists of one billion people, as part of the "obsessive" U.S. war against Al Qaida.

Preparing the field to kill two birds (micro and macro) with one stone?

[meatloaf]

“Washington has been in a confrontation with the Islamic world” There’s the problem. We’ve been “after” a very small percentage of fanatic Muslims. Besides we’ve been assisted in our efforts by other Muslims.

The man is either an idiot or a fool. On second thought, possibly both.