Orcinus: "A Liberal War on Terror"

[Telly Savalas]

The blog Orcinus has an interesting post on how the liberal approach to the "war on terror". It can be found here.

I'm too braindead right now to offer any thoughts on it myself, but I thought it was such a good read that others here might enjoy it.

Cheers.

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[eridani]

2. An excerpt

Note, however, the way that Beinart describes the "war on terror" -- that is, as "the struggle against Al Qaeda" and "totalitarian Islam". Nowhere is there a mention, in his discussion of terrorism, of the anthrax killer or Oklahoma City. Nowhere does he evince any awareness that right-wing domestic extremists pose a similarly potent threat to American lives and the national well-being, having committed the second-most lethal terrorist attack on American soil and by far the largest number of terrorist acts within our borders. This blind spot pervades Beinart's essay, but it is only part of what is wrong with it.