Article: Scared into our wits: the real threat to the West is our refusal to face reality. So there is cause for hope in what we have to fear.(CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS)

WE TRY TO LOOK FORWARD INTO THE MURK OF A NEW year, with a new American Congress, command changes in Washington and Iraq, Saddam now hanged, a new secretary-general at the UN, governments soon changing across Europe (though not, I hope, in Canada)--and what appears to be the same huge international problem with which we've begun every year since the 9/11 attacks made it visible. The only big evolutionary development in fanatical Islam is the continuous growth in power and prestige of revolutionary Iran--which may well announce this year that it possesses nuclear weapons.

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