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Illustration by Abro In a 2012 lecture at the Institute of Advanced Studies, the late Danish-American historian Patricia Crone described Omer Saeed Sheikh as an “acculturated native” who had rebelled against his adopted cultural mores. Sheikh is a British citizen who was arrested in Pakistan for his role in the kidnapping and murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002. Sheikh was born in London to Pakistani parents who had migrated to England in 1968. They quickly adopted British cultural norms and established a successful clothing business there. Sheikh was enrolled at a prestig...

Side. you look at the scandal dals of clintons. they continue to get a pass. i don't think you have to worry about her writing a comparative analysis of john locke or thomas hobbs. the question asked was a pertinent question. right now you see a democratic party all about distribution, all about nationalizing production, about social utopias, secular state and creating and expanding a welfare state. that's classical socialist policy. now, if you want to understand, we'll call ourselves classical liberals and make them define who they are. >> final question, with when are you running again? >> ...

It's hard to say what a diplomatic solution would look like. >> what would it look like? >> well, you know, there's a lot of people on the ground today in syria that want an islamic state. it's not something necessarily we would like. this is what a lot of people say on the ground. there are other people who want a more secular state. this situation has to play out. >> you've counted about 1,000 rebel groups, right? >> that's right. >> it could be more. >> it could be more, yeah. 1,000 groups. this is like afghanistan. this is really complicated. >> like afghanistan. how many are militant base...

That's what these demonstrations don't allow. and, if, an interesting part of the dynamic if everything america does is terrible and gets a mob out, there is no room for what we have, for instance, in an allied country like turkey, not muslim country, but arab country but muslim country, moderate islamists in power. by the way, secular state. that's the kind of democratic systems that need to emerge in these countries. that's a role only america can play. >> i want to gee to rula and then lynn. >> when he won the election in turkey, everybody thought it's another disaster. he's been in power f...