One Response to “Obama Gets the Tartuffe Treatment”

1. David S says:

   January 12, 2009 at 3:59 pm

   Wow, things are pretty rough when even a neocon sympathizer like Fareed Zakaria gets it. Israel has once again played into the hands of Hamas and Iran. As long as Israel remains reflexivily militaristic, it will continue to lose ground.
2. LogicMan says:

   January 12, 2009 at 4:01 pm

   Any article that starts with “Fareed Zakaria thinks…” has my attention, but not to continue reading, just to LAUGH. The guy is a disaster. His last book predicting “the rise of the rest” (emerging markets) came out a nanosecond (no, a zillionth of a nanosecond before emerging market economies collapsed. You see, that is what I mean by LAUGH !! If his name was John Smith, no one would listen to him, he’d be collating in the mail room at Newsweek, like Milton in Office Space.
3. Jonas Menchik says:

   January 12, 2009 at 4:06 pm

   Zakaria and Chopra both severely discredited themselves in their reaction to the Mumbai attacks. Now, Saudi Arabia is part of the “moderate Arab” orbit. Sure. That says a lot more about the term “moderate Arab” than anything recently written on the subject.

   What Zakaria can not define is moderation. As compared to Hamas, there is a slight chance that Egypt and Saudi Arabia are moderate. As compared to any Western nation, no. Its a good cop/bad cop show that was perfected by Arafat. However, the West, esp. the elite journalist, has never questioned these moderate Arab leaders on for their lack of actual moderation that can stand on its own without comparison to Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

   In fact, we only hear about them in glowing colors. In this fantasy world, the real culprit of extremism is the actual democracy, Israel. How strange and upside can you get? Zakaria shows us the way.
4. groupmember says:

   January 12, 2009 at 4:54 pm

   Authentically deep thinking on Gaza, out of Germany:

   http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123171179743471961.html
5. tom hewitt says:

   January 12, 2009 at 5:14 pm

   The cause of the very first war in human history was probably an excess of teen-age boys and testosterone. They must be directed against exterior opponents or they will damage their own society. Mr. Heinsohn’s analysis of the demographics and their cause is correct but the solution of the problem, allowing the emigration of Palestinian youth to the West, isn’t the answer. That approach could spread the problem further afield, maybe as far as the suburbs of Paris and the post-industrial towns of Britain. No, let them stew in their own juice unless their close relatives in the 22 Arab nations should decide to adopt them.
6. Alexander Almasov says:

   January 12, 2009 at 5:39 pm

   Well, it’s good to know (v. #1, Saul’s successor) that Verhabt Xakaria is a “neocon sympathizer.” Before long, as soon as they manage to leave Casablana, Charlie Lindbergh and Joe Kennedy will be joining the Irgun.

   For Mr. Greenwald: has Verhabt Xakaria ever tried to solve Zeno’s paradozes?
7. ian says:

   January 12, 2009 at 6:01 pm

   It’s funny how when you fight back against terrorists the moderates, who presumably oppose the terrorists (hence the term “moderate”) are supposedly on the defensive. So after being completely ineffectual for years we still must act in anticipation of the day that the ever vaunted moderates will at long last take control of their destiny. Somehow after years of inaction waiting for the great moderate resurgence in the sky is not a cogent guiding principle.
8. Maine's Michael says:

   January 12, 2009 at 9:49 pm

   Jonas @ 3,

   Well said.

   The sub text of all this ‘analysis’ by these ‘analysts’ is that Israel, because it is not only non arab and non Islamic, but actually Jewish, must, like the animal the arabs think it is, roll over and show its belly to the arab world, lest they get really mad and depose those ‘moderate’ kleptocrats, homicidal dictators, absolute monarchs and madmen we depend upon to pave the way to a better mid east.

   There is no doubt in my mind that if Israel were not a Jewish state, treated as the Jew of Nations, this bizarro state of affairs would not have gone on this long.

   The arabs would have been beaten, and accepted the strong horse as having a right to live amongst them.

   The ‘peace processors’ got in the way, reset the game board 27 times already, and threaten to do so again . . . .

   And Zakaria is a twit.

   The McEthnic journalist the mainstream loves to pretend is a genius.
9. The Realist says:

   January 13, 2009 at 4:44 am

   This is incredibly true, and is a point that is entirely glossed over in the media: for all the suffering of the Palestinian people, which is doubtless deep, it is not their weakness that we should be focusing on, as the media does. It is the strength of those who use them as a political tool and a smokescreen behind which they advance their radical agenda, all the while trying to claim the mantle of “resistance” which in fact is the opposite — it is provocation.
10. J.J. Sefton says:

    January 13, 2009 at 7:32 am

    There is no such thing as a “moderate Muslim,” at least in the sense we in the west think the word “moderate” means. In reality a moderate Muslim is one who fully believes in and supports what the extremists are doing, but doesn’t have the stones to actually do it himself. These are the people who danced and sang as the World Trade Center fell and are now taking to the streets in precursor pogroms in major western cities, America included.