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Aqoul - August 23, 2006
Pimping Giddiness: MENA Private Sector & New America Foundation
by The Lounsbury

"In reading the first paragraphs of a Washington Post Op Ed by a fellow at the New America Foundation, entitled The Real 'New Middle East' I thought I was going to be pleased, sadly though the author took real observations and mixed them in with simple-minded swallowing of corporate and governmental PR spin to produce absurd tripe typical of the wide-eyed neophyte or the paid propagandist.

A pity as the author's main thesis in a less over-done and gullible form has merit."

Continue to read the article at Aqoul. The content of the website can be effectively used as a palliative for arrogant naivete and its concomitant mental slothfullness, visceral stereotyping.