Hunting The Muse

I studied Arabic in college, because it was the easiest language the college offered (2/5ths of the class was on culture, easing vocab requirements)

We watched that movie.

In the days after Sept. 11th, 2001, Foreign Affairs magazine, published by the Council on Foreign Relations, made a dozen or so articles they had previously published on terrorism.

The article on Algeria impressed me, and I regularly summarize it to people as follows...

France claimed everyone in Algeria was French ("wanting a free and democratic Iraq")
The terrorists would blow up a bus.
(guerrila war to remove France's power and install?)
The French would shake down whom? Just the Arabs. They would be rounded up, questioned, et cetera.

The "We Are All French" claim evaporated in the face of French reaction to terrorism.

I think we are doing the same thing.
We all want everyone to be free.
America gets attacked.
Arabs and Muslims get hassled.

The only problem is that he swore to Laura that the WMD were really there, or something like that, so he can't back down now.

(similarly, we are all "Americans" because America dictates so much world policy, but only 5% of us get to vote)