The opening of my latest column at EveryJoe:
“Defeating an enemy such as politicized Islam is a multi-front battle — police, military, diplomatic, cultural and philosophical.
“Any fight is triggered by short-term, local disagreements. But long-term, generalized conflicts are always about abstract principles in collision. As with neo-Nazis, Communist revolutionaries, violent environmentalists, bomb-the-government anarchists and others — our conflicts with them are intellectual in origin.
“Terrorism is first a mindset — committing to a cause that includes a willingness to kill anonymous others indiscriminately …” [Read more here.]
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