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...hear such talk now. Experts are openly comparing Islamic terrorism to communism and fascism, ideologies that retained the loyalty of devotees despite occasional setbacks. "Al-Qaeda is not just an organization," says Ranstorp. "It's a movement. We shouldn't gauge its success through a short-term prism." It took a year, but recent attacks suggest that the dispersal of terrorists from Afghanistan back to their home bases reinvigorated local extremist groups--among them Jemaah Islamiah in Indonesia--with an influx of logistical and financial resources. That has Tenet worried. "The threat environment we face," he said last week...
Let’s not forget what European-American cooperation has accomplished since World War II. Together, Europeans and Americans have faced down Communism when the Soviets were threatening to “bury” us; we dismantled the racist apartheid regime in South Africa and turned that country into a model of democracy; we’ve moved the Balkans out of its long nightmare of ethnic cleansing and unremitting violence to a new dawn of peaceful coexistence and prosperity; now we’re working together to build an accountable government in Afghanistan that will reintegrate...
...people to death camps, or of denying freedom to any of God’s children. American Protestantism should be proud of its role in the abolition movement. Bonhoeffer was right to invoke God against Hitler. Pope John Paul II is a hero for condemning the godless barbarity of Communism...
...universalist religion of humanitarianism and human rights--a faith without borders, like globalization, or like communism in the old days--has its optimists, who imagine a future of triumphant international decency, and its pessimists, who think expecting people to be nice is a mug's game. David Rieff is a pessimist--a gloomy pessimist at that. At the end of his ruthlessly lucid book A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis (Simon & Schuster; 367 pages), Rieff, with disconsolate satisfaction, quotes Alberto Navarro, former director of the European Commission Humanitarian Aid Office, as saying, "Mankind is slowly...
...from?or about?the civilians most likely to be on the receiving end of American artillery. As the world's most powerful nation girds for a moral and military crusade, history whispers a precedent. Now the larger atrocity in U.S. sight lines is terrorism; 40 years ago it was communism. Today the enemy is Iraq. But it seems like only yesterday it was Vietnam...