The Corner

What Progressives Read?

Let’s hope they were just being careless, but the folks over at the American Prospect have included Hostage to Khomeini, a book published by the Lyndon LaRouche organization, on their list of recommended books. A free scan of the book is available here. It’s not such a stretch to believe in a vast rightwing conspiracy if you also endorse the view that the Islamic Revolution in Iran was a British plot and the Iranian seizure of hostages an inside job by the Carter administration. They must have been smoking dope. Of course, in Queen Elizabeth II, they’d have a good supplier…

Michael Rubin is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, senior lecturer at the Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Civil-Military Relations, and a senior editor of the Middle East Quarterly.
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