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December 1, 2002

Your Jim Henley moment:
From the perspective of the Arab world, they’ve been enduring a half century of smack downs. It doesn’t seem to have improved their attitudes. “The beatings will continue until morale improves” makes a cute cubicle poster, but not an effective foreign policy. […]

Now that Unqualified Offerings thinks about it for a minute, the notion that “a large Arab country like Iraq needs to be smacked down to provide impetus for democratic reform in all of Arabia and destroy Islamic fundamentalism” just seems too stupid for words. We might define “too stupid for words” as the certainty that one’s opponents will see the same virtues in your actions that you do.

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