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Neoreactionary crime-think twitches in an unlikely place:
I am well aware of how this statement is likely to play among my liberal friends: to say something like this is to be orientalist/patriarchal/arrogant/imperialist/racist, but could it be that it may also be true?
(3QD tacks quite determinedly Islamo-leftist, but this whole piece — on the US Syria decision — is well-worth reading, and the first half, in particular, is excellent.)
ADDED: Another unlikely crime-think eruption.
Daneil Greenfield nails it.
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2013/09/shooting-syrian-elephant.html
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Posted on September 10th, 2013 at 12:20 pm | QuoteSpeaking of crime-think … the highest-profile guy out there saying everything you can’t say is Pat Buchanan. Sometime over the last 6-12 months he started to really catch fire. Either he had been right all along and events were just catching up to him, or recent events spurred him into hyper-drive. Regardless which it is, for the first time ever I read everything he writes, such as his latest on Syria …
http://buchanan.org/blog/america-says-beltway-war-5868
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Posted on September 10th, 2013 at 12:44 pm | QuoteOmar Ali is actually an extremely sensible and nuanced commentator and I wouldn’t pin the “islamo-left” label on him that easily. He also writes for the brownpundits.com blog about Pakistan mainly and I highly recommend it.
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September 10th, 2013 at 10:12 pm
The label was pinned firmly on the site, wasn’t it? (The buck stops with whoever selects the 3QD stories — but it’s an interesting place.)
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