[bensam]

Review of Iraq from Israel

[Androcles]

Good post. Bump for later detailed reading.

[kenavi]

The guy is well-versed in history.

He's apparently an Iranian living in Europe or the U.S.

One of his themes is that the Saudi regime is more culturally inimical to Western culture than is Iran:

"When on any given Monday, a sharply dressed official from the US State Department conducts a one hour harangue on the evils of Iran for supplying Shia militias in Southern Iraq with roadside bombs and then, that same official, only a few hours later, attends a “working lunch” with his Saudi counterpart, the utter stupidity of American foreign policy manifests itself to the world.

How can the American government expect to be taken seriously when it applies different standards to two parties, who in essence, commit the same offence? Why is Shia radicalism viewed as somehow more pernicious than Wahabbi fundamentalism when both parties engage in similar activities? In fact, Hanson himself clearly points out that “Saudi terrorists have killed more Americans than all those murdered by Iranians, Syrians, Libyans, and Iraqis put together.”