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June 24, 2015

Making the Same Mistakes about the Islamic World

How Western policymakers fundamentally misunderstand the Middle East.

The late J.B. Kelly, a distinguished scholar of the Middle East, spent much of his career trying to correct fundamental misunderstandings that all too often shaped the decisions of Western policymakers. Bruce Thornton, reviewing a recently published collection of Kelly’s essays from the 1980s and 1990s, comments on some of the most persistent, and dangerous, mistakes:

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