Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Why the White Man was impressed with Sayf Al-Islam

""The more important question is why so many Westerners were ready to fall for Seif. He was intelligent, often surprising, wore well-cut suits and chewed his food with his mouth shut," says Bret Stephens in The Wall Street Journal.  The New Yorker's Andrew Solomon writes, "Westerners often mistook his elegant words and his well-cut suits for an adherence to democratic values."" (thanks Mouin)