TOO NICE TO WIN?

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WHAT if liberal democracies have now evolved to a point where they can no longer wage war effectively because they have achieved a level of humanitarian concern for others that dwarfs any really cold-eyed pursuit of their own national interests?

What if the universalist idea of liberal democracy - the idea that all [...]

WAR WITH MULLAHS IS COMING

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August 16, 2006 — HISTORIANS will look back at this weekend’s cease-fire agreement in Lebanon as a pivotal moment in the war on terror. It is pivotal in the same sense that the Munich agreement between Adolf Hitler and Neville Chamberlain was pivotal in an earlier battle against the enemies of freedom. [...]

Strange Logic in the Lebanon War

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by Daniel Pipes
New York Sun
August 15, 2006
[NY Sun title: "Press Bias Exposes Strange Logic of War"]
As staff at some of the world’s most prestigious press organizations effectively take Hezbollah’s side in its war with Israel, they inadvertently expose a profound transformation in the logic of warfare.
Some examples of their actions:

Reuters: Adnan Hajj, a freelance photographer [...]

The Changing Face of Warfare

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Daniel Pipes Weblog
August 15, 2006
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Warfare in recent decades has turned historic assumptions upside down. Countries used to be the enemy; now regimes are the enemy, while their subject peoples are our friend. Battlefield superiority used to be the goal, now it is assumed before a shot is fired. Victory used to be [...]

Wake up America – We’re Under Attack!

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The Hizballah attack on Israel is NOT just another local conflict between Jews and Muslims, as some would have us believe. It is part of a far larger, long term, Islamic jihad against America and the West. Radical Islam is now attacking America and the West via the Hizballah assault on Israel. [...]

Russia’s external challenges in the 21st century

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MOSCOW. (Sergei Kortunov for RIA Novosti) - Nearly all of the mid- and long-term forecasts for Russia’s development made in this country and abroad are pessimistic. They predict a demographic collapse, a decline in the quality of human capital, economic and technological degradation, the crumbling of democracy, and a return to totalitarianism.
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