Comments on: Six Questions for Marc Lynch on Iraq, the “Surge,” and Al Qaeda http://dissidentvoice.org/2007/05/six-questions-for-marc-lynch-on-iraq-the-%e2%80%9csurge%e2%80%9d-and-al-qaeda/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:27:33 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Ariadna http://dissidentvoice.org/2007/05/six-questions-for-marc-lynch-on-iraq-the-%e2%80%9csurge%e2%80%9d-and-al-qaeda/#comment-409 Ariadna Sun, 20 May 2007 03:00:44 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/05/six-questions-for-marc-lynch-on-iraq-the-%e2%80%9csurge%e2%80%9d-and-al-qaeda/#comment-409 "Al Qaeda is trying to spread its jihadist world view, the notion of a fundamental clash of civilizations and the idea that Islam is under threat." Amazing! They are our mirror image. Ask the likes of Krystol or Horowitz about the "clash." "It’s remarkable how rapidly and deeply this way of understanding the world is becoming entrenched in the Arab world." Again, or mirror image, except in our case it is not so remarkable: it is not word of mouth. Our mainstream media does a job that would have made the Propaganda Abteilung Bureau proud. “Al Qaeda is trying to spread its jihadist world view, the notion of a fundamental clash of civilizations and the idea that Islam is under threat.”

Amazing! They are our mirror image. Ask the likes of Krystol or Horowitz about the “clash.”

“It’s remarkable how rapidly and deeply this way of understanding the world is becoming entrenched in the Arab world.”

Again, or mirror image, except in our case it is not so remarkable: it is not word of mouth. Our mainstream media does a job that would have made the Propaganda Abteilung Bureau proud.

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