Don't worry, I don't have anything critical to say in response to the article. I just thought one sentence in particular stood out:
"Dissidents were brutalized under the late Hassan II, to be sure, though that monarch's pro-American, anti-Soviet foreign policy was among the most constructive in the region."
What a charming way to refer to that period? I'm all about realist foreign policy, but seriously? The sentence basically should be read as:
"Hassan II brutalized dissidents, but this fact can largely be overlooked since he was one of the few in the region whose pro-American, anti-Soviet foreign policy aligned with Western interests."
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Don't worry, I don't have anything critical to say in response to the article. I just thought one sentence in particular stood out:
"Dissidents were brutalized under the late Hassan II, to be sure, though that monarch's pro-American, anti-Soviet foreign policy was among the most constructive in the region."
What a charming way to refer to that period? I'm all about realist foreign policy, but seriously? The sentence basically should be read as:
"Hassan II brutalized dissidents, but this fact can largely be overlooked since he was one of the few in the region whose pro-American, anti-Soviet foreign policy aligned with Western interests."
Yeah I noticed that too, a very messed up way of putting it.
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