Former C.I.A. Middle East specialist, Reuel Marc Gerecht, said on “Meet the Press,” that U.S. democracy in 1900 didn’t let women vote. If Iraqi democracy resembled that “we’d all be thrilled,” he said. “I mean, women’s social rights are not critical to the evolution of democracy.”
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Who the hell is Reuel Marc Gerecht, you ask?
Reuel Marc Gerecht is the Director of the Middle East Initiative at the Project for the New American Century and a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He is recently a contributor to Present Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in American Foreign Policy (Editors Robert Kagan & William Kristol; Encounter Books, 2000) and is the author under the pseudonym of Edward Shirley of Know Thine Enemy: A Spy’s Journey into Revolutionary Iran (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997). A former Middle Eastern specialist in the CIA, Mr. Gerecht writes frequently on the Middle East, Central Asia, terrorism, and intelligence…
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Regarding the then-impending war in Iraq, Gerecht said: “If President Bush follows his own logic and compels his administration to follow him against Iraq and Iran, then he will sow the seeds for a new, safer, more liberal order in the Middle East.”
And he considers himself an expert. He’s actually a hack who will say anything Texaco or Chevron wants him to say. No more women’s rights in Iraq? Gerecht is thrilled.
