[LaBelleDameSansMerci]

"...He is thus very far from being typical of American academics...."

How true, how true. And fairly far from typical American anything--except that his ideas are undergirding the War Against Evil and Terrorism--in which typical Americans will die.

[rdb3]

War against "evil?" Who is fighting this war and who are the combatants? I'm familiar with the one against terrorism, but not evil.