[jyl]

His analysis is crap.

For example:

Why were the Arab countries friendly to the USSR despite the latter's actions in Afghanistan etc?

The author says this was because the Soviets were tough.

How about because the USA was allied with Israel, so the Arab countries and PLO had to cozy up to the USSR? Where did most of the Arab countries get their military hardware from, all those T72s and MIGs? Wow, Arabs vs Israel is the single most defining conflict in the Middle East, from whence modern jihad etc sprang, and the author somehow overlooks it?

Do you not see what a dip**** this guy is?

Edit: Okay, maybe I was a little mean, after all I haven't read his other stuff. So I rephrase - do you not see what a dip**** this guy is in this op-ed piece?