When Feith interviewed an experienced Pentagon Arabist, Patrick Lang, for a job in Iraq after the invasion, Feith asked: “Is it really true that you really know the Arabs this well, and that you speak Arabic this well? Is that really true?” Lang said, yes it was. “That’s too bad” said Feith. There was no room for someone with an ounce of sympathy for “those people.” Lang didn’t get the job.
When a concept matches with observation, it is the Truth. (Rousseau)
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