Tapsearch Com EditorIf at first you don't succeed, bomb, bomb again
September 11th 2007 21:53
It's amazing how far I've drifted from neoconservatism in the last couple of years. I just kind of shook my head at this statement in the Weekly Standard:
Yes, that's it. They go after the U.S. -- halfway around the world and much more powerful than they are -- and blow themselves up because they can't stand the thought that somewhere, someone has a different lifestyle than they do. It has nothing to do with our imposing that lifestyle on them. In fact, imposing that lifestyle on them is the solution! Why didn't I think of that!
Critics of U.S. foreign policy can cite many reasons for Islamist rage. But they overlook a more fundamental problem: To al Qaeda and its sympathizers, nothing is more deserving of contempt than the idea of faith as a free and rational choice--a concept more integral to American identity than any other Western democracy.
Yes, that's it. They go after the U.S. -- halfway around the world and much more powerful than they are -- and blow themselves up because they can't stand the thought that somewhere, someone has a different lifestyle than they do. It has nothing to do with our imposing that lifestyle on them. In fact, imposing that lifestyle on them is the solution! Why didn't I think of that!
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