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Monday, October 2, 2006
Between Pope and Prophet
(3 comments) Muslims' response to Pope Benedict's address at Regensburg is a fresh chapter in the arrival of global Islam on the world's political stage, says jihad authority Faisal Devji.

Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Beware The NIE
(3 comments) In their eagerness to knock down Bush's war in Iraq by using reports about the NIE, the Democrats risk giving another boost to the president in the "other" war, namely, the so-called war on terrorism. By embracing the NIE's reported conclusion that the war in Iraq has made the threat of terrorism worse, the Democrats play into Bush's strong suit.

Monday, September 25, 2006
Thomas Hobbes Was Right Anarchy Does Not Work
(3 comments) The latest U.N. report on conditions in Iraq confirmed the wisdom of the 17th century British political philosopher Thomas Hobbes. Hobbes, a survivor of the bloody English civil wars of the 1640s, famously concluded that in the absence of any effective government, the life of human beings became "nasty, brutish and short." That, Hobbes concluded, was why even rule by a harsh tyranny was preferably to the chaos of struggling fo