Hizballah Didn't Win - Amir Taheri
"Hizballah won the propaganda war because many in the West wanted it to win as a means of settling score with the United States," says Egyptian columnist Ali al-Ibrahim. "But the Arabs have become wise enough to know TV victory from real victory."
(Wall Street Journal)
Life and Death - Shelby Steele
Palestinians...seemed to prefer the aggrieved dignity of their resentments to the challenges of nationhood.
Islamic extremists don't hate the West because they are oppressed by it. They hate it precisely because the end of oppression and colonialism forced the Muslim world to compete with the West. Less oppression opened this world to the sense of defeat that turned into extremism. Islamic extremism is the saber-rattling of an inferiority complex.
The writer is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford.
(Wall Street Journal, 22Aug06)
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