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Article: World War IV? (Century marks).(Brief Article)(Excerpt)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- November 6, 2002
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WORLD WAR IV? If the cold war was World War III, as some argue, Norman Podhoretz thinks the United States should precipitate World War IV. Writing in Commentary (September), he lauds President Bush's call for a preemptive strike against Iraq, but then asks: Why stop there? Indeed, most of the Muslim world needs to be overhauled, according to Podhoretz, including the "axis of evil" (Iraq, Iran and the very non-Muslim North Korea), other Muslim countries such as Syria, Lebanon and Libya, as well as the "friends" of America, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, and for good measure, the Palestinian Authority. He even has a ...