When smart people have crazy ideas

By James Lewis
The American Thinker

One of the frightening things about the Islamic world is that it has many very intelligent people with beliefs that are delusional, at best. We can easily see the same thing here at home, so this is not a slam at the Muslim world as such. It is a worry, however, because that part of the world needs all the realistic thinkers it can get. To some extent the West can afford its crazies. That is not true in Iran, where people with a truly mad ideology will soon have their own nukes. Today, delusional thinking in the Islamic world is as frightening as Stalin's madness was fifty years ago, and Hitler's paranoia before that. Sane countries with nukes are bad enough; crazy countries with nukes are another story entirely.