Anbar, Buffoons and the Daily Kos
BY Herschel Smith
18 years, 12 months ago
The best open source analysts on Iraq are Nibras Kazimi of Hudson Institute (and Talisman Gate), and Mohammed and Omar Fadhil of Iraq the Model. Without planning or warning, from time to time their collective wits and powers of analysis will dovetail, and it’s a wonderful thing to watch as they deconstruct lies and propaganda.
Kazimi recently turned his guns on a New Yorker article which relied on an interview with an alleged sheikh Zaidan al-Awad, and the “sheikh” had this to say:
I asked Zaidan what sort of deal had led to the Sunni Awakening. “It’s not a deal,
What did you expect from the DailyKos? That website might as well be run by toddlers. Always screaming and throwing tantrums when a concept is beyond them.
No, I’m sorry, but you cannot run out into the middle of the street.
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