At least someone in the western world is thinking intelligently

If you want to see reasoned analysis at its best, you have to read The Paragraph Farmer as he takes apart a ridiculous Op-Ed in the LA Times, in which an English professor purports to demonstrate that Americans are every bit as barbaric, uncivilized and fanatic as the terrorists in Iraq. Patrick attacks both the rhetorical inaccuracies that enable the good prof to set up his argument, as well as the factual errors which power the foolish rhetoric. It's always nice to see an intelligent mind gracefully and completely destroy a harmful and foolish one.