FLASHBACK: AUGUST 31, 2009

“India [two colleagues] seemed to agree, has 160 million Muslims. It can’t afford to alienate them by sending troops to Afghanistan. Umm: so it is that whoever wages wars in Muslim lands should end up alienating Muslims, regardless of good strategic intentions. So the Indians pass the torch for alienating the Muslims-the-world-over to . . . us! They seem to be saying: you have a negligible Muslim population in the mainland United States; YOU can afford to wage wars in Muslim lands and alienate Muslims.”

(From: “Who Did It? Plantation Iraq Pays the Price for the Reluctance of the Reluctant Ones.” August 31, 2009.)