he appears to be setting aside a penchant for bernard lewis/samuel huntington-informed clash of civilization-style analyses in favor of a view that political islam (sic -- he's started saying that) is not representative of islam or of muslims generally and that we need to engage and bolster moderates in the muslim world. true, this has so far only produced the "argument" that letting turkey into the EU is the key to peace, but it's not his old way.
has anyone else noticed this? or is it just my imagination?
j
On Monday, January 12, 2004, at 01:21 PM, Dwayne Monroe wrote:
> Carl Remick posted:
>
> Connoisseurs of self-exculpation take note: Slate is
> featuring a forum this week – “Liberal Hawks
> Reconsider the Iraq War”
>
> http://slate.msn.com/id/2093620/entry/2093641/
>
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>
>
>
>
> Let's all put our Nostradamus caps on (similar to a
> beret but more, um, ethereal - in some way) and play
> the *predict the future* game.
>
> These fellows - Berman, Friedman, Hitchens, Kaplan and
> the rest - have written a mountain of text in books,
> essays, articles, op-eds and so on saying essentially
> one thing: the West is engaged in a life or death
> struggle with *Islamo-fascism* (sounds like a drink, a
> blue one). *Now yes*, these tiny titans say, *the
> Bush administration offends our liberal sensibilities
> in a variety of ways but given the Islamo-fascist
> threat (chatter indicates they've perfected a time
> machine bomb that blasts your ass into the past), the
> eggs must be smashed (smashed!) to create the tasty
> omelette of global freedom.*
>
> Here's the prediction: during the Slate forum, no
> one's going to back off from the central idea. The
> focus will be on how the Bush admin did a good thing
> but isn't following through correctly (look for this
> from Berman and Field Marshall Hitchens) or, on how
> the war against Iraq was an unecessary diversion from
> the essential war against the jihadi shadow ninjas of
> Islamo-fascism (now with more kicking and flipping).
>
> In short, there'll be flabby derriere covering
> a-plenty but it will be hidden by a thick smokescreen
> of *we're-fighting-for-our-life* chatter.
>
>
>
> DRM
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