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To: LindyBill who wrote (106853)	3/31/2005 3:08:55 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 794376

Very interesting. It makes me think that the reason we're going to win is that AQ doesn't get what makes democracies stable - the formation of a middle class with a stake in the system. They keep saying 'if we make 5% of Muslims our followers, we'll have an unbeatable army'. Unbeatable to do what? Terrorize the other 95% into cooperation? But they don't think they have to do that, because their model for a state is the Arab model - a small ruling elite, where the mass of people have little say. Turn 5% of that country into your followers, and you might be able to take power. AQ has this in common with the current rules of what they call "puppet states" - they regard the people as sheep.

To: LindyBill who wrote (106853)	3/31/2005 10:18:31 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 794376

I have written about Michael Doran before. The other NE Profs at Princeton couldn't fill a classroom, much less a lecture hall. Of course, you don't know that. Doran's case is an interesting one. I've liked the articles he published in Foreign Affairs but don't have any sense for his full resume. That could be his problem as much, and more likely more than, political/ideological differences. I can't find a resume via Google. There is a short blurb which appears on the Princeton website, that lists a book with Oxford University Press, certainly a good place to publish. But he could easily be a border line case in which all sorts of other issues come into play. But not one in which it's black and white political. A shame Tek's not still around. He knows him well and his work equally well and, of course, for personal reasons, knows a lot about the Princeton faculty. He would certainly have something to say here.