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Wednesday, December 20, 2006

"What they really want is freedom from us"

ay, and there's the rub...
America’s promises of assistance in Middle East should be treated with caution. We keep saying we want to give democracy to the Middle East but what they really want is freedom from us and this we are not willing to give them.

Robert Fisk, author of The Great War for Civilization: The Conquest of the Middle East has been reporting from Lebanon since the first civil war began there in 1976. Based in Beirut, he is probably the best-known Western journalist to report from the Middle East.

our idea of democracy and freedom in the middle east is the freedom to take direction from the united states...

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posted by profmarcus at 12/20/2006

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