Note: Takeyh was also born and raised in Tehran, and has one of those Oxford Ph.Ds. It's difficult to say which would have influenced him to be empathetic towards Militant Islam with Nukes.
So why does CFR give him money to dress up his childhood prejudices as scholarship?
Here's one hypothesis: Because Thomas Jefferson isn't at the helm anymore. Can you imagine TJ trying to convince Americans that the solution to the attack on American commerce is that we just need to engage in a better dialog with the Barbary Pirates? Neither can I.
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JJ, his stance makes a little more sense when checking out the Ray Takeyh cv. Like Pepe, he spent time at Berkeley.
Note: Takeyh was also born and raised in Tehran, and has one of those Oxford Ph.Ds. It's difficult to say which would have influenced him to be empathetic towards Militant Islam with Nukes.
True enough. So why does CFR give him money to dress up his childhood prejudices as scholarship?
So why does CFR give him money to dress up his childhood prejudices as scholarship?
Here's one hypothesis: Because Thomas Jefferson isn't at the helm anymore. Can you imagine TJ trying to convince Americans that the solution to the attack on American commerce is that we just need to engage in a better dialog with the Barbary Pirates? Neither can I.
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