RUDY == MORE OF THE SAME

Giuliani has stocked his foreign policy staff with rabid neo-cons and Michael C. Desch finds out what it's like to cross the ideologues:

I was so appalled by the mayor’s simplistic message that terrorists were attacking us because they “oppose our freedom and ... want to impose their ideology on us” that I ignored protocol and challenged him during the Q&A. To the accompaniment of hisses from the rabidly pro-Rudy students, I reminded the mayor that Islamic fundamentalists in Saudi Arabia, Iran, and elsewhere in the Middle East have taken our side against al-Qaeda at various times. Like the students, Hizzonor was not amused, and I got five minutes of unvarnished Rudy chiding me for just not getting it.

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I learned later that Giuliani was so annoyed by my hectoring that he complained about it at the reception after the talk.