Jeet Heer Retweeted Zack Beauchamp
Yep, this needs to be underscored. The Global War on Terror was launched often in defiance of expert opinion on Afghanistan, Iraq, terrorism, Islam, and international relations.https://twitter.com/zackbeauchamp/status/1430951378680127488 …
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The post-9/11 period has some interesting relevance to our "trust the experts" debates today.
All of a sudden, a bunch of generalists got interested in Islamism and developed theories about it at odds with the academic consensus. The results were...not pretty.
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