Fouad Ajami argues in Opinion Journal that the West still has no idea how to read the terrorist mind (it being pointless to "understand" their "anger," since it's mostly feigned for the sake of a naked will to power). You have to read the whole thing to get it --it winds its way all over the place-- but I'll give you his sound-bite asides regarding the value of the NIE document.
Few will read this report; fewer still will ask why a virtually incomprehensible Arab-Islamic world that has eluded us for so long now yields its secrets to a congressional committee.
And a bit later:
It is odd, and ironic, that the intelligence agencies that had been mocked by liberal opinion for their reporting on Iraq before the war have now acquired an aura of infallibility.
I might add no one seems to have noticed the report came out before Zarqawi was killed --big difference. But do go read it yourself; it's not about the NIE, but about how people in the region think and how they read us. Curtsy to
NLT.
