I bought some index cards today, and when I got home I found out that they were more like index heavy-papers than index cards. I must be old-fashioned, since I don't actually buy index cards to make tiny paper airplanes with. Silly me.
On another note, I'd like very much to be able to read the website of what is rather commonly supposed to be one of the better conservative magazines, without having my intelligence insulted. I'm talking about National Review, and I'm not talking about blog posts.
No, Michael Ledeen wrote in this article:
"[The Iranian mullahs] whisper to American diplomats — who then promptly inform the Washington Post, afflicted with grave credibility problems of its own — that they are prepared to deliver al Qaeda terrorists into our hands, if only we will be kinder. I have lost count of the number of times this empty promise has been trotted out (this regime could no more abandon al Qaeda than it could abandon Shiism; terrorism is too deeply embedded in its DNA)."
Al Qaeda is Sunni. There's very little they hate more than Shiite Muslims. And as Ledeen so helpfully pointed out, the Iranian leadership is Shiite, leaving Iran with very little reason to protect Al Qaeda members. I know this, and I can just about guarantee that Ledeen knows this. I, after all, am a younger-than-25 software engineer in the heart of the Midwest, and Michael Ledeen is "resident scholar in the Freedom Chair at the American Enterprise Institute."
Posted by Ardith at February 13, 2007 10:22 PM | TrackBack