New Republic vs. The Nation

[Ken Hanly]

Some of this makes some good points although others may indicate some gaping
holes in the argument.
This last paragraph though is a real howler isn't it?  Who was it sent his
associates to fight in Bosnia and Kosovo but bin Laden?
And what was the solution in Bosnia but to carve the country up mostly on
ethnic lines. And what was the final result in Kosovo,
a reverse ethnic cleansing in which the vast majority of Serbs and Roma in
Kosovo have been forced to leave because of ethnic hatred and reprisals.
Sounds like the US and its allies defended a Muslim's right not to live with
a non-Muslim . Just coincidentally, Bosnia and Kosovo are now listed as
"states" that have terrorist cells. Having thus given aid and succour to the
terrorists, bomb yourselves damn it...

Cheers, Ken Hanly

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TRB FROM WASHINGTON
Fault Lines
by Peter Beinart

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If Fisk and The Nation really want to argue that America brought the World
Trade Center attack on itself, they shouldn't delude themselves. They are
not defending the Palestinians' right to a state or the Iraqis' right to
medicine. They are defending a Muslim's right not to live with a non-Muslim.
And in so doing they are renouncing this country's most sacred
principles--principles that saved countless Muslim lives in Bosnia and
Kosovo in the 1990s. When the left assembles at its candlelight vigils and
peace marches in the coming weeks, let it proclaim this honestly. And other
Americans will survey the scene, and scream.

PETER BEINART is editor of TNR.