Sunday, July 22, 2007

The West’s Ruling Cadres are Not Stupid

Commentators that have national, right-wing sentiments have a striking and regrettable tendency to base their critiques of Israeli and American policies on the notion that the leaders of these nations are stupid, unable to learn from their mistakes. For example, they complain that these policies and leaders can’t seem to learn that releasing jihadists from prison always produces more dead and wounded Israelis and more demands that Israel make more unilateral concessions to allay the “cycle of violence in the region.” And then they’re ‘surprised’ when this leads to more attacks ad infinitum...

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