Lots of email like this:

He shouldn’t be complaining that Moore and Kennedy can’t read arabic… He should be complaining that I can read arabic. I served as a Marine intel operator and translator for seven months in Iraq. I’ve had Shi’ite instructors, talked with the Shi’ites of southern Iraq about their grievences. *I* know his pessimism is unfounded. I know he’s on the wrong side of history and this “Goldberg doesn’t know anything about Iraq” defense won’t fly with me.