[TomB]

There's a lesson in there, somewhere?.

ummm, no there isn't.

I honestly tried to read the article and understand SOMETHING. But, other than the "Big Oil" reference, the entire screed might as well be written in Swahili.

I was once commended by Raimondo for actually commenting on an article he wrote, instead of calling names....

....sorry Justin, not this time, there ain't nothing there. (no comment on the double neg.)

[TomB]

BTW, you might want to ping the moderator, that's the wrong title.

Too bad, it was the best part of the article.

[quidnunc]

So now Jusatin is taking up cudgels for the house of Saud, did he ever meet a dictatoir whom he didn't admire.

He seems to be attracted to strongmen.

[HAL9000]

By an amazing coincidence - Laurent Murawiec also wrote an article titled The Wacky World of French Intellectuals for the Middle East Quarterly.