Stephen Zunes

Professor Zunes was on the News Hour as one of 3 "experts" debating the pros and cons of training Iraqi police officers. Mr Zunes is as left wing as it gets and I am not sure what qualifies him to speak on policing, as he looks as if the only dealings he would have with the police is at the throwing end of a molotov cocktail. He obviously has Tourette's Syndrome. He twitches and grimaces and grits his teeth as he postulates, with relish, on his dream of a really shitty system taking root in Iraq, hopefully with the Iranians involved. It's pathetic to see how little the left really cares about the Iraqi people. You'd think that they would be willing to give them the benefit of the doubt as the Iraqis are "people of color." However, I think that the majority of Iraqis are damned by their support of the ousting of Saddam. The left sees these people as traitors for siding with the US and they will never forgive them for it. The left can only wish the Iraqis ill and hope that they get what they deserve. To the left, what the natives of any country want is secondary to what the leftists living in comfort and safety in the first world nations want for those people.