Israeli officials are angrily dismissing claims that the Wall Street Journal reporter abducted in Pakistan works for the Mossad, Israel\’s foreign intelligence service.
Suddenly, we find that an alternate universe shadows our world. Its inhabitants see our culture as their poison, our politics as their oppression, our freedom as their threat — The question is how we could have been so blind. Only now is most of America learning about fundamentalist Islam. Just one year ago, when then-candidate George W. Bush didn\’t know the name of President George W. Bush\’s best friend, the president of Pakistan, the public\’s response was, \”So what?\” So, this: Our blissful ignorance turned out to be deadly.
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