Submitted by Diane Wolff/Author/Journalist(United States), Jun 29, 2004 at 17:21
Nice piece, Daniel. You know I'm a fan. This one lays it out. Seems the only thing that has worked of late is taking out the hierarchy of militants and building the wall.
Same policy as turnover in Iraq. Let's see how it goes when it's their watch.
Please please please, do you ever deal with the concept of a mass psychosis in the Arab world fueled by media, education and sexual and economic frustration, much as many felt there was a mass psychosis in Hitler's Germany.
Your analysis of militant Islam vs. moderate Islam borders on this but you have never gone to the realm of behavioral analysis. It is implicity in your work.
I feel that we are all forced to watch Arab snuff films in global media. This to me is a serious sickness, when murder for publicity gets international media attention.
Your fan,
Diane Wolff
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