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...terrorism [Aug. 7-14]. But when Yasser Arafat's goons hijacked the Achille Lauro and pushed Leon Klinghoffer into the sea and the international community did nothing, the bin Ladens of the world saw that they could commit such acts without reprisal. Thus global terrorism was born. The world cannot allow any kind of terrorism to exist, even if it is local. Ariel Stern Jerusalem...
...puzzled by Walter Kirn's depiction of Princeton. While I cannot comment on the Princeton of the 1980s, when Kirn was there, I do know that the Princeton of today offers intellectual stimulation that far surpasses the philosopher-name-dropping that Kirn suggests is the end point of a Princeton education. The "X factor" is not egotism but motivation. The established alumni networks may help down the line, but the attention that Princeton's professors give to their undergraduates is the school's most appealing trait. And I hope that Kirn reported the cheating he saw to the Honor Committee...
...become overly dismissive of the long-term prospects for democracy in the Middle East. That would be like writing off democracy in Europe because of the failure of the revolutions of 1848. It's true that the governments that purport to rule in Baghdad, Gaza City and Beirut cannot control the unelected militias that rampage through the streets. But that should be a sign that five years after 9/11, the problem in the Arab world today remains not too much democracy but too little...
...back to the pre-9/11 paradigm of wholeheartedly supporting "friendly" dictators like Egypt's Hosni Mubarak and the Saudi royal family. If our support for the Shah of Iran in the 1970s or Yasser Arafat in the '90s has taught us anything, it should be that secular strongmen cannot keep the lid on forever. Either we push for change now or we risk a fundamentalist explosion later...
...World Bank, the U.N. and the Marshall Plan. The strategy of containment was accepted by both parties. I believe that our circumstances today offer a similar opportunity and we must consider policies and actions on a comparable scale, with that same spirit of bipartisanship. This is an opportunity we cannot afford to let slip. We must be as creative today as our predecessors were a half-century ago. Realism and idealism are two strains not only in our foreign policy but also in our character as a people. We function best when those two values work hand in hand...