Excellent essay from Robert Wright at the NYT Opinionator site.
Sickens me that all the Palinistas/Baptist preachers/Tea Party/Glenn Beck wannabes are so troubled by the prospect of a mosque near Ground Zero. FDR had it dead on: "we have nothing to fear but . . . fear itself." Yet these hyper-American The-World-Belongs- to- Jesus types (who seem to be intent on the conversion of Kurdistan, and whom the Kurdish leadership seem to be playing for suckers) play the fear trump-card like college kids playing pinochle.
Sickens me that all the Palinistas/Baptist preachers/Tea Party/Glenn Beck wannabes are so troubled by the prospect of a mosque near Ground Zero. FDR had it dead on: "we have nothing to fear but . . . fear itself." Yet these hyper-American The-World-Belongs- to- Jesus types (who seem to be intent on the conversion of Kurdistan, and whom the Kurdish leadership seem to be playing for suckers) play the fear trump-card like college kids playing pinochle.
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