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...countries in which al Qaeda operates - many of them in the developing world. Indeed, it's a safe bet that as U.S. military action renders the terrorists' Afghan nests increasingly inhospitable, bin Laden's men will be on the lookout for new sanctuaries in countries where the state is weak and local conflicts offer opportunities to grow a terror infrastructure...
...memetic battleground does not as yet include, however, places like Afghanistan. Here are the game preserves for weak and un-adaptive memes, the great game parks for the memetic equivalent of the dodo. We need to introduce the rabbit to their Australia, the zebra mussel to their Mississippi. Instead of bombs, we should be dropping radios that receive a generous sampling of free-world radio in order to inoculate them with a normal culture of memes before they are infected by the worst of the bunch, the Ebolas of the meme world, suicidal self-righteousness...
...placed third in the ECAC regular season and tournament. The year before that, defending national champion Harvard was left out in favor of a Minnesota team it had beaten 7-3 during the regular season and a Dartmouth team that had lost five more games against a relatively weak schedule...
...August, after three I.R.A. suspects were arrested leaving an area of Colombia controlled by rebel guerrillas. The U.S. government, which had played an active but neutral role in the peace process, turned frosty at the idea that the I.R.A. might be involved in terrorism in America?s backyard. Weak denials from republicans were not accepted, and a few weeks later, as a Dublin official put it, "the world turned. Sept. 11 changed the game." After the Twin Towers fell, international distinctions between terrorists and freedom fighters became thinner. Sinn Fein?s U.S. fund raising, worth millions of dollars, came under...
...violence against Muslim rulers who contradicted Islam-a basic Takfiri tenet. French terrorism expert Jacquard describes Takfiri indoctrination this way: "Takfir is like a sect: once you're in, you never get out. The Takfir rely on brainwashing and an extreme regime of discipline to weed out the weak links and ensure loyalty and obedience from those taken as members...