To all of you who rant about the Middle East and Israel on this board.
 

A large percentage of you have no fucking clue what you are talking about. I recommend that you buy and read this book very carefully.

At least then you will have the advantage of having read a reasonably neutral first hand account of recent historical events in the region, and not sound like a complete tool while you are parroting some of the half-baked shit that people seem to spout here.

I thank you, and have a productive day.

It's by Robert Fisk you idiot. Are you stupid or what?

Umm yes, a guy who has reported in Lebanon, Afghanistan and all over the bloody region for like 30 years... Your point?

So, if someone has reported on a particular region for 30 years then they must be automatically right? Are you stupid or what?

No, but they will be able to give valuable eyewitness accounts of what they have seen. Its up to the individual reader to disseminate.

To ask you an equally trite question, are you one of those people who will will only read and learn from authors who you already know support your world view?

No, are you?

I repeat my question, what was you point?

This is an interesting one
http://www.amazon.com/While-Europe-S...e=UTF8&s=books

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Looks interesting. I will order this and give it a read.

From one of the reviews:

"I honestly think that every American should read it. It is a clarion call to not repeat the myopic, multicultural mistakes that have gotten European countries into a fix that I honestly don't see how they can get out of now. You will acquire a clear portrait of the attitudes of Muslims in Europe, as well as those of elitist Europeans in all of their moral smugness and self-assuming superiority. Many themes are presented, but perhaps the over-arching theme is that tolerance for the intolerable (wife beating, genital mutilation, honor killing, rape, etc.) is never ever a good policy for a freedom loving, individual-respecting society."

Also puts across an interesting message (bolds mine)