Originally posted by Ripsnort
Ahhh, attack the source since the data is so accurate. Nice tactic.

Well, here's your source:
Professor Department of Political Science, Purdue University, Ph.D. Princeton 1971, and author of many publications dealing with Middle Eastern security issues.
One presumes that the Professor has a name and that the article quoted was perhaps part of a paper? If so plse furnish the details.
Saying it was written means nothing, if you wish to have an intelligent discussion behave in an intelligent fashion rather than being so defensive.
The "data" is meaningless to anyone with any form of tertiary education - it agrees with your narrow minded view of world events and therefore to you is "accurate"
It's just the ravings of a right wing loony that another little right wing loony has copy and pasted.