Them is Them - James

Them is Them - James Lileks has a great screed (at the end of the Daily Bleat) about the fallacy of "understanding" the other side in a war. You know the type - "if you only took some time to understand the Palestinian [Iraqi, Taliban, Russian, German] side of things, you wouldn't be so pro-[Israeli, America, etc...].

Read the whole thing - but my favorite quote is:

If Saudi Arabia had a Star Trek, do you think they’d put a Jewish Chekov at the helm?