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...Bush Administration exploited fear to justify its irrational attack on Iraq when in fact al-Qaeda was hiding elsewhere. Americans are intelligent enough to know we are facing a threat. A successful response must not be distorted by base emotions of insecurity, anger or revenge. We have the wisdom and the strength to overcome our enemies. We cannot afford fear. Roland S. Fredericks Marietta...
...been poverty, because people who are poor are supposedly desperate. Poor people, they say, carry out acts of violence and terror because they simply have nothing to lose—they do not fear death because life could scarcely contain more misery. However, like so much of the conventional wisdom concerning the Middle East, the idea that poverty is a precipitator of terrorism is flat-out wrong...
Indeed it is entirely baffling to me why the conventional wisdom that “poverty breeds terrorism” survived for as long as it did. While the Middle East’s great wealth is not evenly spread, the average citizen’s standard of living there is considerably higher than in most parts of the world. Pakistan and Indonesia, two recent terror hotspots, likewise are not particularly wealthy but neither are they particularly poor, their incomes ranking somewhere in the middle worldwide. And, the most well-known perpetrators of terror, the thugs that carried out 9/11...
...been shown to reduce the incidence of both domestic and international terror, doesn’t it make the most sense to try and increase freedom in the part of the world where terrorism is most severe and dangerous? I would say that it does, even though conventional wisdom might disagree...
Noting that he has “limped off too many canonical battlefields,” Bloom insists that he has only three criteria for what he reads and teaches: “aesthetic splendor, intellectual power, wisdom.” At this point in literary scholarship he suspects “the profession is pretty much split down the middle” between aestheticists like himself and more postmodern theorists...