Our efforts will be self-defeating if we drive Sunni nationalists closer to ISIS.
Stephen Holmes
Stephen Holmes teaches at NYU School of Law and is the author of The Matador’s Cape: America’s Reckless Response to Terror.
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Chicken Little Goes to Europe
Western Europe is being transformed by immigrants from the Islamic world. But they are not the enemy within.
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The European Dilemma
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Free Press, 368 pages, $26.00) Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance by Ian Buruma (Penguin, 288 pages, $24.95) The world came to know Ayaan Hirsi Ali as a result of the murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, with whom she had […]
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How the War Was Lost
Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq by Michael Gordon and Bernard Trainor (Pantheon Books, 603 pages, $27.95) This vivid book wraps a political bombshell inside a riveting tale. Its central chapters deliver a blow-by-blow account of the unstoppable American dash toward Baghdad, blinding sandstorms and all, in […]
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Must Democracy Wait?
The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad By Fareed Zakaria, W.W. Norton, 286 pages, $24.95 Fareed Zakaria’s wide-ranging examination of the difficulties and downsides of democracy makes gripping reading today, especially as the Bush administration announces its plans to hand a shocked and awed Iraq back to the Iraqis. Writing before the […]
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Why We Need Europe
Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order By Robert Kagan, Knopf, 112 pages, $18.00 France and Germany’s refusal to accept the Bush administration’s definition of the Iraqi threat has made shockingly visible the decade-long weakening of the Atlantic alliance. Robert Kagan looks behind such wars of words to discover why, […]
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What Russia Teaches Us Now
Metastasizing organized crime, massive tax evasion, unregulated sales of missiles–the people of Russia and the world now have more to fear from the breakdown of the Russian state than from its power. Why liberty itself depends on competent government.
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Managing the Rage
As the fog lifts from the September 11 attacks, the FBI and CIA are presumably honing in on the identity and aims of the people behind the plot. An organizational explanation focused on conspiratorial networks will be easier for us to accept than a broader sociological one, since anyone who draws attention to the “root […]
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Focus on Iraq
The terrorists who attacked New York and Washington on September 11th were not trying to make a point. They were trying to provoke a foolish reaction. They hoped to lure the United States into the kind of poorly targeted retaliation that would destabilize our allies in the Islamic world and recruit more foot soldiers into […]
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The Liberal Idea
Textbooks tell us that a great gap separates classical from modern liberalism—James Madison from Franklin D. Roosevelt. Some conservatives say modern liberals betrayed the earlier tradition, and some progressives agree. But the continuities are funda
