Sunday, May 16, 2010

The only democracy in the Middle East

Al-Jazeera reports:








Let's hope no offense was intended.



  1. If Clemons is serious when he says -- "I also read Alan Dershowitz, who essentially has become a Noam Chomsky of the right when it comes to Israel policy." -- then he's a remarkably poor reader.

    Chomsky is respected across the spectrum for his exacting standards and methodical analyses. It's not a partisan thing. Plenty of people will disagree with his politics and opinions and still be able to find his analyses well worth reading. Dershowitz sets out to preach to a narrowly targeted audience: the neocolonial torture monkey fan club. A comparison that puts them on a par of some kind is fatuous at best.

    It's hard to properly reduce it to the absurd, but... Steve Clemons and Lyndon Larouche both write in English, therefore they have something in common.

  2. also, one might add that Clemons and LaRouche are both demagogues, even if Clemons is much better at it