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Disinformatzia and the Islamic Agenda Last night I attended the New York screening of the documentary American Zeitgeist:crisis & conscience in an age of terror, shown at the New York Society for Ethical Culture. The documentary recommends itself as one that “ resists political agenda”, “presenting a a bigger picture in a wider historical perspective” beginning with the Afghan-Soviet War in 1979 and ending with the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Forty “leading brains” (http://www.americanzeitgeist.com/interview.html) amongst well known policy makers, academics and journalists, together with Imams, and terrorists ramble on presenting their views. According to the film’s advertising and reviews...

“With the benefit of minute hindsight, Saddam Hussein wasn’t the kind of extra-territorial menace that was assumed by the administration one year ago. If I knew then what I know now about what kind of situation we would be in, I would have opposed the war.” Those words are William F. Buckley’s, from an article in yesterday’s New York Times marking Buckley’s decision to relinquish control of the National Review, the flagship journal of the conservative movement he founded 50 years ago. Also out on the newsstands now, in The Atlantic Monthly, is an essay Buckley wrote describing his decision...