Joan Juliet Buck: Difference between revisions - Wikipedia

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In her defense, Buck had written, “I didn’t know I was going to meet a murderer. There was no way of knowing that Assad, the meek ophthalmologist and computer-loving nerd, would kill more of his own people than his father had and torture tens of thousands more.”<ref>http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/07/29/joan-juliet-buck-my-vogue-interview-with-syria-s-first-lady.html</ref>

[[Michael Totten]] responded in [[World Affairs]], “Assad . . . wasn’t yet a war criminal when Buck wrote her piece, but he ''was'' a totalitarian dictator and a state sponsor of the who’s-who of radical Islamist terrorist organizations. Everyone knew this. Everyone. The woman had no excuse.”<ref>http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blogs/michael-j-totten</ref>

==Personal life==