You don't have to be a scholar, but you can't be a politician either
Reader comment on item: Erdoğan Bares His Fangs
in response to reader comment: You don't have to be scholar to understand Islam

Submitted by jennifer solis (United States), Jan 9, 2009 at 17:54

Polititians are notorious the world over for conveniently ignoring stark realities in favor of garnering votes, power, position; why should they bother with understanding the realities of Islam? If they do, why would they reveal it? The populace would have a heart attack, and throw them out of office for scaring them so.

"Did US/European politicians study Karl Marx to formulate policies against the USSR?"

No, but Patton read Mein Kampf.

Democratic governments, the EU, the Western world never names the enemy until it's absolutely unavoidable. And then, they negotiate. Only when bombs (or planes) are going off on their front porch do they start scratching their heads and wonder about other possibilities.

They arrogance of the belief that "treat others as you would like to be treated" will be returned in kind is the "Achilles' heel" of the free world.

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