"MATTHEWS: One thing we`ve learned the past 14 years and that is how to escalate the American fighting in the Islamic world. We know how to kill Arabs on international television. What we haven`t figured out is how to bring this fight from a boil down to a simmer, to take the rage of the Islamist, Islamism down to the usual, regional set of resentments we`ve been living with for a very long time.
WILKERSON: Simple answer, Ed. Is if we can`t, it can`t be done. Let me just tell you that the hype about this group is phenomenal. I frankly find it difficult to believe, great powers like the United States taking council of their fears is the first step to destruction. These people are Arabs for the most part, just like the Iraqis, just like the Syrians, they are beatable. Moshe Dayan once said, when someone ask him a question about the 1967 war and why Israel won it so easily, he said in frustration, "Well, it helps to be fighting Arabs."
SCHULTZ: Yeah." (thanks Basim)
WILKERSON: Simple answer, Ed. Is if we can`t, it can`t be done. Let me just tell you that the hype about this group is phenomenal. I frankly find it difficult to believe, great powers like the United States taking council of their fears is the first step to destruction. These people are Arabs for the most part, just like the Iraqis, just like the Syrians, they are beatable. Moshe Dayan once said, when someone ask him a question about the 1967 war and why Israel won it so easily, he said in frustration, "Well, it helps to be fighting Arabs."
SCHULTZ: Yeah." (thanks Basim)
