| A primer on how not to get duped in the Middle East. Nancy Pelosi should read it sometime. Hat tip Gateway Pundit. |
by Barry Rubin
Engage, moderate, and split—that’s the mantra for Middle East policy of the wrong-headed in many foreign ministries, newspaper editorial offices, universities, and other places where the rapidly growing international bad-ideas industry is centered.
Yet nothing could seem more self-evident than these propositions. What could possibly be wrong with engaging radical forces, persuading them to change their ways, and breaking up their alliances?
IÂ’m glad you asked. Here is how these apparently obviously correct ideas are dangerous and even disastrous:
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