The Brooding Persian has some reflections on Simone Ledeen and other junior Messiahs currently interning in Iraq:
- Don’t get me wrong now. I am all for on the job trainings. I don’t believe in the cult of expertise. But seriously, shouldn’t the family team so intent on saving all of us be able to at least speak some Arabic or Persian? Especially when formulating or promoting tendentious policies affecting millions? Aren’t they in the least bit curious? For goodness sake, even Jane Goodall managed to communicate with the creatures she intended to save in a language other than English.
Yeah, but Jane Goodall cared about her patients’ wishes.