Speaking Truth About the Middle East to the Powerful in Government

To the Editor:

The field of Middle Eastern studies could certainly do without Martin Kramer's counsel (Hot Type, October 26). ... The field does, however, have a task -- indeed, an obligation: to make explicit to the public the fact that Western powers have for much of the 20th century been waging war on Arab and Muslim peoples, a war that has been waged not only on the ground and from the air and the sea, but also on the very aspirations of the Arab and Muslim peoples ... for

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