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It's Not Shakespeare, That's For Sure

By The Daily Dish

Mar 27 2009, 3:31 AM ET

Tom Ricks finds a website that posts translations from Urdu and Pashtu media. He asks:

One thing that strikes me reading it is how predictable Taliban rhetoric is. I've always found the same with al Qaeda's commentary -- just poorly written, and I've read enough so that I don't think it can be blamed entirely on the translators. Can readers of Arabic tell me if al Qaeda sounds as bad in the original?



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