Urgency on the Battlefield
Written by Clark S. Judge
Appearing in "Hoover Digest" (Published 12/12/2006 :: Global Issues)
Last summer, the president and his senior advisers
tried to define the adversary in the wider war on terror when they spoke,
for a brief time, of “Islamo-fascists.”
After the predictable catcalls from the predictable circles, the
administration backed off. But it may have been onto something. For if
there is not necessarily a tight ideological fit between Al-Qaeda and like
groups and fascism, there is, nevertheless, a tight historical
fit—and between Islamicism and communism, too. All the ideologies
arise from a common historical upheaval. All have common pathologies. All
three represent what might be called a dissent from the democratic
consensus that individual happiness is the measure of social good, that
popular sovereignty is the foundation of political legitimacy, and that
protection of life, liberty, and property is the end of just government.
Link: Urgency on the Battlefield - Hoover Digest
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