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Article: Is there writing on the wall? Danger from radical Islam discounted by many.(OPED)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- April 25, 2007
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Byline: Tony Blankley, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Watching (and participating in) the intense Iraq war and war on terror debate both in the United States and in Europe and the politics that flows from it, a sense of futility is increasingly hard to resist. Our nation and Europe seem to have hardened in their divisions on those topics.
It would appear that the great divide in both public opinion and between politicians is not Republican-Democrat, liberal-conservative, pro- or anti-Bush or even pro- or anti-war (or, in Europe: pro-or anti-American).
Rather, the great divide is between those, such as me, who believe that the rise of radical Islam poses an existential ...