First step or last gasp? Al-Qaeda as anticolonial travesty. (Below the Beltway).
American Prospect, The, January, 2002 by Judis, John B.
THERE IS WIDESPREAD AGREEment that the September 11 terrorist attacks against the United States ushered in a new stage of world history, one distinct from the last 50 or 100 years. Secretary of State Colin Powell has referred to the period since 9-11 as the "post-post--Cold War." New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has described it as "World War III." Many others, citing Samuel Huntington's theory, have portrayed the war as a "clash of civilizations" that has superseded the Cold War clash of ideologies.
The war, writes political scientist Louis ...
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