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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)
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- Western Standard
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- January 29, 2007
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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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