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Democracy and the Enemies of Freedom: After Saddam's capture, the forces of tyranny remain strong
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| Sunday, December 28, 2003 12:01 a.m. EST
| BERNARD LEWIS
Posted on 12/27/2003 9:06:27 PM PST by BCrago66
Edited on 04/23/2004 12:06:16 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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The American military intervention in Afghanistan and then in Iraq has had two declared objectives: the first and more immediate, to deter and defeat terrorism; the second, to bring freedom, sometimes called democracy, to the peoples of these countries and beyond.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: arabworld; globaljihad; middleeast
From OpinionJournal.com:
Mr. Lewis, professor emeritus of history at Princeton, is the author of "The Crisis of Islam" and "From Babel to Dragomans," out in the Spring from Random House Trade Paperback and the Oxford University Press, respectively.
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posted on
12/27/2003 9:06:27 PM PST
by
BCrago66
To: BCrago66
Also as must read is his other short recent work, "What Went Wrong?"
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posted on
12/27/2003 9:12:16 PM PST
by
AmericanVictory
(If Arnold is the governater, Howard is the governatter)
To: AmericanVictory
Bought "What Went Wrong?" I purchased the audio of "Crisis of Islam" from audible.com - that way I can partake of its wisdom without moving my lips.
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12/27/2003 9:16:07 PM PST
by
BCrago66
To: BCrago66
Democracy and the Enemies of Freedom: After Saddam's capture, the forces of tyranny remain strong Case in point:
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posted on
12/27/2003 9:23:59 PM PST
by
lowbridge
("Is it just me, or is Kwanzaa becoming way too commercialized?" -Ann Coulter)
To: BCrago66
Democracy and the Enemies of Freedom: After Saddam's capture, the forces of tyranny remain and they are the 
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posted on
12/27/2003 10:03:43 PM PST
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
To: BCrago66
If they rerun it, as they are likely to do, catch the C-Span interview with him. I was particularly struck by his evocation of Washington's letter to the Rhode Island Hebrew Congregation and his obvious love of our founding principles, clearly connected to his emigrating here and becoming a citizen.
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posted on
12/27/2003 10:09:10 PM PST
by
AmericanVictory
(If Arnold is the governater, Howard is the governatter)
To: BCrago66; MJY1288; Calpernia; Grampa Dave; anniegetyourgun; Ernest_at_the_Beach; BOBTHENAILER; ...
But as the struggle rages and intensifies, certain things that were previously obscure are becoming clear. The war against terror and the quest for freedom are inextricably linked, and neither can succeed without the other. The struggle is no longer limited to one or two countries, as some Westerners still manage to believe. It has acquired first a regional and then a global dimension, with profound consequences for all of us. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Good read.
Bless our warriors.
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posted on
12/28/2003 8:50:59 AM PST
by
Ragtime Cowgirl
( "Our military is full of the finest people on the face of the earth." ~ Pres. Bush, Baghdad)
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Bless our warriors ~ Bump!
Be Well ~ Be Armed ~ Be Safe ~ Molon Labe!
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posted on
12/28/2003 9:00:48 AM PST
by
blackie
To: BCrago66
One of the best analysis I have read on the subject. I think that most of us realize that establishing democracy is going to be difficult, but from reading the Iraqi Blogs I don't think it's going to be quite as difficult as many of us think.
On one of the blogs they told of talking to an Iraqi cab driver in Basra who was uneducated and stunned these young Iraqis by his understanding of the situation and his total belief in it finally happening.
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Bump!
To: Heuristic Hiker
Bernard Lewis ping
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Bump!
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12/29/2003 11:39:47 PM PST
by
windchime
(Podesta about Bush: "He's got four years to try to undo all the stuff we've done." (TIME-1/22/01))
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