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Terrorism: Causes, Threats, Prospects |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Alan J. Levine |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 9/1/2003 |
| Size: 2,318 Words, 14,593 Characters |
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NO END TO WAR
Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century
Walter Laqueur
New York: Continuum, 2003
288 pp., $24.95
TERROR AND LIBERALISM
Paul Berman
New York: W.W. Norton, 2003
214 pp., $21.00
Those familiar with Walter Laqueur's many brilliant works will not be disappointed with his latest book. No End to War is a grim, honest--more honest than we have been accustomed to--and very thorough survey of the development of contemporary terrorism and the prospects for the terrorist threat in the foreseeable future. Laqueur's conclusions are convincing but not very comforting. In countering arguments that terrorist attacks of the magnitude of September 11, 2001, are unlikely to recur--it is a bit disturbing that he feels it necessary to deal with this sort of whistling in the dark--he sar...
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...ort to deal with the problem of terrorism. This is partly due to the simple fact that, while they may not like the pseudo-medieval maunderings of the bin Ladens, they hate some of the same things and people bin Laden hates. Sadism and a nihilistic lust for destruction have not been minor factors among modern-day leftists, any more than they have been minor factors among neo-Nazis or Islamists.
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