Word: fanaticisme
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The West has not fought a serious religious war in 350 years. America is too young to have fought any. Our first reaction, therefore, to the declaration of holy war made upon us on Sept. 11 was to be appalled, impressed and intimidated. Appalled by the primitivism, impressed by the...
By the same token, with the total collapse of the Taliban, everything has changed. Omar has lost his robe. The Arab street is silent. The joy is gone. And recruitment? The Pakistani mullahs who after Sept. 11 had urged hapless young men to join the Taliban in fighting America and...
We can now, however, carry on with a confidence we did not have before Afghanistan. Confidence that even religious fanaticism can be defeated, that despite its bravado, it carries no mandate from heaven. The psychological effect of our stunning victory in Afghanistan is already evident. We see the beginning of...
But has there really been a paradigm shift? Despite the literal truth explained by Heraclitus, there are some constants no fiery fanaticism can destroy, some issues and conflicts that have not been budged an inch by the devastating events of that sunny Tuesday morning. So what will never be the...
When one reads that a business executive who works in a skyscraper is shopping for parachutes, the "shadow of fear" is no longer merely a specter but a jolt of what reality is now. Terrorists who live in the shadows need to be brought out into the light and their...