I have studied Islam and popular Islamic culture for the past 28 years and have analyzed what Sherifa Zuhur is doing.
Sherifa Zuhur writes insidiously, deliberately fudging issues, when she argues that… “the pathologizing impulse may be beneficial in rallying Americans to the defense of their nation…”
Here she is basically saying that patriotism (demeaned by her as a “pathologizing impulse”) is not beneficial for “international cooperation”.
Sherifa Zuhur deliberately wants to confuse things so much that her intention is clear: to dilute US patriotism to the point that Americans will not be able to call a spade a spade. (ie. a traitor a traitor)
That she is highly placed in the US military can only bode ill for the nation.
Quoting Sun Tzu is OK, but I rather quote Socrates, that in the face of the challenges posed by the Sophists it is of the utmost importance to have clear ideas.
