The John Batchelor Show

VIDEO: Remembering Fouad Ajami

July 06, 2015

Thursday 2 July  2015  / Hour 1, Block A: Sam Tadros, Hudson Institute, in re: Fouad Ajami, deeply missed, a singular, lyrical writer an commentator. Believe Middle East problems were not imperialism or from outside, were the result of the deeds of those who live there.  In These Times, his most recent book.    ISIS butchering Egyptian police, Syria enshrouded in darkness, Mesopotamia in utter chaos.  We guess that Fouad would hold the troubles in Egypt to be central;  "The country may have lost its luster of old .. . .  but this time will be judged by what happens in Egypt" – the shaper of the Arab future.  Sinai [thugs] have given their allegiance to ISIS; another affiliated with al Q; a low-level insurgency fuelled by MB – throwing Molotov cocktails, burning police cars.  All these at the same time.  Syria is the Mecca of jihadists – multipe organizations, massive carnage Unseen before in our lifetimes. It;d talke a lot of US troops to end this, but we need a policy of US leadership that rallies local forces.