Juan Cole on the Schiavo case. A must read.
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I’ll have to stop reading this blog if you lead me into agreeing with the likes of Juan Cole. : (
Seriously though, I think Cole could have made his point without the reference to the Taliban and Islamists — seems gratuitous to me. Like we don’t have enough trouble. Nice, acceptable secular examples would have sufficed.
Don’t misunderstand me — I think the Congress egregiously overreached here and I’ve already sent email to the two Democratic congressmen In Maryland that voted in favor of this travesty (both from perfectly safe seats, but what the hey!).