But in Body of Lies, the director captured the basic points I wanted to make about America's miscomprehension of the Arab world in the years after 9/11".
A basic point I would like to emphasise is that these questions are always present even if they are not explicitly taken into account by governments.
Although I'm not formally trained in English literature, or art history, or other humanities subjects, I can grasp the basic points, if not the nuances, of most articles published by scholars in these fields, if they are written to be understood rather than to impress and intimidate.
One comment I saw pleaded with librarians to respect the law and not to use Sci-Hub "just to save money". Such moralizing misses a couple of basic points, I think.
The basic point is, as I saw on a placard at one of the Wisconsin demonstrations, "United we bargain, divided we beg". A union exists to bring the collective power of coworkers to bear in winning better conditions and benefits than isolated individuals could in the face of concentrated power.
But the basic point is this: I am all for those kinds of efforts, but what the Sustainable Defense Task Force did was to go beyond the notion that we can do more efficiently and less expensively what we are now doing, and to say we got to stop doing what we are trying to do.
But the basic point seems valid, and I think there's one more consideration we need to mention: This seems like a particularly clear case where the market value of a good is much lower than its social value.
I stand by the basic point of this post and my reply to your previous comment.
"But I stick to the basic point we made: that Islamic history did not arise as the classic tradition says it does".
