History Lesson

Read this excellent entry by Bob Harris at This Modern World.

Decades of U.S. shortsightedness in dealing with the Islamic world are what got us into the current situation. More of the same is not a solution.

We can engage the moderates in Iran, the non-violent factions of the Salafi, and genuine peacemakers throughout Islam and across the mideast.

Or we can just make more threats and occasionally blow stuff up in countries Bin Laden doesn't even hang out in.

Allah help us all.

To be very Instapunditish...Indeed.