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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (136140)6/10/2004 3:59:53 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Today David Gordon, who writes the blog for the Von Mises Institute website, critiques Frum and Perle's An End to Evil. In part, he argues, Frum and Perle generalize - he says fallaciously - from Israel/Palestine to all confrontations involving radical islam.
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I don't like Perle at all, and Frum is an intellectual lightweight, so, so far I've refused to read the book. Can it really be as cartoonish as he argues?

Israel/Palestine live in a constant state of war that has no foreseeable ending. The rest of the world lives, for the most part, under a threat of random terrorism that is amorphous and dangerous, and therefore frightening, but not war.

I am coming around to the position that the best way to handle Islamist terrorism really is through excellent police work. But I also support the position that we threaten countries which are even thinking about supporting Islamic terrorists that intervention will occur unless they cooperate in exterminating safe havens.
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