08/06/2006 Article

How to Lose the War on Terrorism:
V. The Politics of Indignation

/ Mark Perry & Alastair Crooke

Tags: Al Qaeda, Bush Administration, Neocons, Political Islam, Salafism, War on terrorism

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Asia Times, June 8, 2006 The foundational belief of the “war on terrorism” is that militant Islam is hollow. We are not fighting a credible

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06/06/2006 Article

How to Lose the War on Terrorism:
IV. Acts of Faith

/ Mark Perry & Alastair Crooke

Tags: Bush Administration, Neocons, Political Islam, Salafism

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Asia Times, June 6, 2006 That talking and listening would now seem so difficult is not the result of some inherent inability of differing cultures

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03/06/2006 Article

How to Lose the War on Terrorism:
III. An Exchange of Narratives

/ Mark Perry & Alastair Crooke

Tags: Dialogue, Hezbollah, Political Islam, War on terrorism

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Asia Times, June 3, 2006 There was a time in the immediate aftermath of September 11, 2001, when Western intellectuals debated the meaning of the

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01/06/2006 Article

Defend the NPT

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Iran, NPT

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Prospect, June, 2006 The struggle with Iran over nuclear issues is usually portrayed in the west as a reasonable effort to force Iran to comply

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01/06/2006 Article

Talking to Hamas

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Hamas, Intifada, Israeli-Palestinian conflict

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Prospect, June, 2006 Almost no one believes that putting Palestinians on a “diet” will make them more moderate or help to restart a political process

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