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Yes. And Ayaan Hirsi Ali doesn't really count as a woman
She is a racist warmongering neocon. Or so I heard.
Besides calling Hirsi Ali names (warmongering racist, etc), Hazelton follows by the snide remark that what croitics of Islam know about Islam could be written on the back of a playing card.
The implication being, by opposition, that lady Hazelton knows tons more than those dumb critics of Islam. I bet she wouldn't last 15 minutes faced with a David Wood or Sam Shamoun.
But it's even funnier by contrast to Hirsi Ali who was a Muslim herself. But Lesley Hazelton knows more. Much more. Lesley Hazelton is pleased with Lesley Hazelton.
What gave anybody that idea?:
I wonder what it is about Kissinger she admires? Perhaps it's the piles of dead bodies the policies he promoted produced, making Kissinger the world's worst living mass-murderer.
Perhaps her war promotion and employment at the notorious American Enterprise Institute may have given sane people that idea:
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At least she can meet great humanitarians while there:
I wonder if she made it to the AEI dinner:
Niall Ferguson appears to be fond of aggressive war.
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/feb/20/niall-ferguson-interview-civilization
As many of his critics have noted, Ferguson's emergence as an advocate of empire coincided with the rise of neoconservatism in the US and the drive to displace Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq. (In the run-up to the war, Ferguson was a vocal supporter of invasion.) Although he became critical of US policy once the occupation took place, and now distances himself from the neocons, he remains unrepentant about his pro-war stance, arguing that the real problem was that the invasion was "botched" because of the Bush administration's failure to commit sufficient manpower and resources to it. ("The problem I constantly wrote about then was that if you invade and overthrow the bad guy, hold elections and then piss off, it doesn't work."
Nor does he rule out supporting similar campaigns in future. "It's all very well for us to sit here in the west with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's immoral to violate the sovereignty of another state. But if the effect of that is to bring people in that country economic and political freedom, to raise their standard of living, to increase their life expectancy, then don't rule it out."I presume Ayaan Hirsi Ali met Niall Ferguson through her work at the neoconservative AEI where she was hired after her career in Dutch politics collapsed after her fraudulent past was exposed. It looked really bad for Ayaan Hirsi Ali to be a member of an anti-immigration party when she was granted asylum in the Netherlands through fraud.
Henry Kissinger attended their wedding.
Dawkins has probably been the standard bearer much like Carl Sagan or Bertrand Russell were.
I suppose it's the title of Dawkins' latest book which set off the discussion:
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