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Hudani, who plans to earn an M. Phil in Medieval Arabic Thought, hopes to study Islamic law and philosophy with the intention of examining its position within the context of a “non-Arab Islamic world...
...when their wanted relatives can't be found. As one Iraqi waiting on line at a checkpoint last week told the New York Times, "I see no difference between us and the Palestinians." That's a worrying development for U.S. authorities, since in the eyes of much of the Arab world, the humiliation of occupation has served to justify terrorism against the Israelis...
...Palestinians. A series of recent media reports suggests that U.S. forces have specifically sought advice, training and expertise from the Israeli Defense Force on how to deal with the Iraqi insurgency, although such contacts have remained discreet - "PR catastrophe" would be an understatement for the reaction in the Arab world, and in Iraq itself, if an army that likes to think of itself as Iraq's liberators turns out to be seeking coaching from Israel. The New York Times reported last weekend that U.S. officers had gone to Israel to study its experiences of urban warfare and counterinsurgency...
...enemies. The sky has been falling on Europe, Africa and Asia for centuries with terrible results, so don't expect a hungry, war-torn and weary world to weep too long or too hard when disaster strikes the U.S. But now, with a full-scale military occupation of an Arab-Islamic nation under way, a large part of the globe is suspicious of the U.S.'s motives and angry at blatant disregard for international law. Pro-U.S. sentiment overseas is going to be scarcer than ice water in hell. Joseph Kuhl Dubai...
...indeed not against Islam. (Europeans should be used to cringing by now; the last time we bombed Iraq it was called “Operation Desert Fox” with no apparent recollection that this was the nickname of the Nazi general Erwin Rommel, who overran Arab North Africa.) But when language is being crafted for American consumption, Bush has become the mouthpiece for an ingenious conservative language engineering operation, dating back at least to 1990, when Newt Gingrich issued the famous memo, “Language: A Key Mechanism of Control...