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There is a cure, but it can be controversial. The basic philosophy: if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Become one of the increasing number of museums and historical sites that are redesigning their collections with high-tech interfaces, action-packed short films and theme-park aesthetics. The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum opened in Springfield, Ill., last year with a talking Honest Abe hologram and a host of other educational parlor tricks. The Marine Corps museum, opening in Quantico, Va., near Washington in November, will use changes in temperature and humidity to immerse its visitors--and, it hopes...
...Blowout Cure...
...What the Fancy Machines Can - And Can't - Do New medical technology can probe, scan and make sophisticated diagnoses. But it's up to the body to cure...
...recruits will simply fill the shoes of those we eliminate. And while radicalization can occur in almost any context, it is easier to defuse the consequences in an open society--one where grievances can be addressed through the political process rather than through suicide bombings. Democracy is no cure-all, but the record suggests that liberal, representative regimes are less likely to sponsor terrorism or wage aggressive wars than their more illiberal neighbors...
Jihadist terrorists look for support primarily to Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Syria--not a democracy among them. For all the carping about Bush's policies, no one has really offered a credible alternative to liberalization as a cure for what ails the region. It hardly seems tenable to go back to the pre-9/11 paradigm of wholeheartedly supporting "friendly" dictators like Egypt's Hosni Mubarak and the Saudi royal family. If our support for the Shah of Iran in the 1970s or Yasser Arafat in the '90s has taught us anything, it should be that secular strongmen cannot...