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Western Leftists Have Lost the Plot
But look a little bit more closely. Hamas, Hezbollah, al-Qaeda, and all the other many groups have something in common: they all operate out of places with exceptionally weak and fragile states (and, if you want to get all lib about it, fractured and hopeless societies). How could it be otherwise? Governments don’t like a bunch of other wannabe gov... See more
REVIEW: Leap of Faith, by Michael J. Mazarr
Try being as idealistic when a terrorist group is trying to create a Sharia state thirty miles from your doorstep, and twenty-one countries around you (give or take, depending on the year) are conspiring to decimate you.
Noa Tishby • Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth
Even more important, Putin’s Russia lacks a universal ideology. During the Cold War the USSR relied on the global appeal of communism as much as on the global reach of the Red Army. Putinism, in contrast, has little to offer Cubans, Vietnamese, or French intellectuals. Authoritarian nationalism may indeed be spreading in the world, but by its very
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