Hard to imagine intellectuals as traitors?

Submitted by Charles Martel (United States), Dec 27, 2007 at 13:23

Daniel!

"It is hard to imagine the intellectuals of any other state acting in like fashion?"

What West have you been living in for the last 40 years?

Treason/sedition/national suicide have been the first things I've seen from western intellectuals since at least 1968.

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Daniel Pipes replies:

The feelings are widespread, the wording is unique. Find me a comparable quote from an American or Briton.