An illuminating hour with one of the West's leading experts on the Middle East,

beginning with oil and OPEC, but ranging to British colonialism (the pros as much as the cons), to the current situation in South Yemen, and to why we can't take much comfort from the fact that Islam and Marxism are fundamentally incompatible. JBK: "The important thing here is that the emotions, aspirations, that are excited in Muslim breasts, either by the preaching of Islam or by the doctrines of Marxism which are fed to them through different agencies and perhaps in very changed versions--it is not necessary that these two should mix. Both are directed towards the same end: that is, the release from oppression, the enjoyment when you enter in upon your estate. Now who are the oppressors? The oppressors in both cases are deemed to be, whether by Marxists or Muslims, the West."