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May 1, 2006
Bernard Lewis on WOT
Opinion Journal has posted an essay by Fouad Ajami on leading Middle East scholar Bernard Lewis, who is turning 90. He asked Lewis to compare the climate of England during WWII with contemporary America as it fights the War on Terror :
"In 1940, we knew who we were, we knew who the enemy was, we knew the dangers and the issues," he told me when I pressed him for a reading of the struggle against Islamic radicalism. "In our island, we knew we would prevail, that the Americans would be drawn into the fight. It is different today. We don't know who we are, we don't know the issues, and we still do not understand the nature of the enemy."
Scary.
Posted by Philip Klein at May 1, 2006 8:10 PM