Michael Rubin remarks at the Corner: “Terrorists kidnapped scores of Iraqis from a higher education research institute. It says a lot that the Western media, Europe, and the Arab League don’t react with the same outrage that they did over the Abu Ghraib scandal.”

Sometimes it’s said that we don’t hold Arabs to the same standards of behavior to which we hold Westerners. But if that is true, neither do the Arabs.

The next issue of Academic Questions will carry an interview with John Agresto, who served in Iraq in 2003-04 as Senior Adviser for Higher Education and Scientific Research with the Coalition Provisional Authority, an experience that he likens to being ”mugged by reality.”