Meet the New Look, Same

Meet the New Look, Same as the Old Look - but I finally put the links to other blogs and media sites where I want them.

Not exactly radical surgery, but hopefully it'll work for a while!

Our Ongoing "Quagmire" - The NRO's Amir Taheri on the real results of the ongoing war on terrorism.

Two of the money quotes, in response to pre-Afghanistan predictions:

No Muslim country has fallen to a radical fundamentalist group. On the contrary there has been a distinct move away from extremist religious-political discourse. In the Sudan, the military-backed regime has disburdened itself from its fundamentalist allies and started an internal peace process brokered by the U.S. At the same time the Turabists have made their mea culpa and are trying to jettison their violent ideology. In Egypt the Gamma Islamiyah (Islamic Society) emirs have declared a complete change of strategy, renouncing terrorism. In Iran the hard-line mullahs are on the defensive, if not yet on the run. In Pakistan the main Islamist movement, led by Ghazi Hussein Ahmad, has renounced violence in pursuit of political goals. Even the Lebanese branch of the Hezbollah has denounced the 11 September attack and the ideology behind it.

There has been no "explosion" in the so-called " Arab street." In the past 12 months there have been 17 small anti-American demonstrations in the Muslim world, half the number that happened in 2000. Most of the 17 demonstrations took place in two Pakistani cities: Peshawar and Quetta last November and December. Instead there were also demonstrations of solidarity with the victims of terrorism in several major Islamic centers including Jakarta, Tehran, and Istanbul.

Why isn't this in the papers?

Posted by Mitch at September 18, 2002 04:02 PM