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- Title: Terror, Evil, And the New Cold war.
- Author : The Humanist
- Release Date : January 01, 2004
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 313 KB
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After his first meeting with Vladimir Putin, George W. Bush assured the American people that he had looked into the Russian leader's eyes and established that "he was a good man" This president has extraordinary confidence in his ability as an ophthalmologist of the soul. Discerning obvious good and evil, he moves ahead single-mindedly. Yet dividing the world neatly into good and evil states may not have unequivocally good consequences. It produces a comforting level of moral outrage and strategic clarity, but it risks making us insensitive to nuances and cruelties implicit in our understandings of good and evil. These misunderstandings and gaps may ultimately undermine even our security. Unfortunately, Bush's confidence that the United States is a beacon of freedom and that Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein are singularly crazed and incomprehensibly vicious masterminds of evil is mirrored by some left and anti-war activists. For Bush, rhetoric of axis powers allows him to tap and expand vague currents of "civilizational" war without opening himself to charges of antipathy to all Muslims. Nonetheless, images of the West versus the East are deeply problematic. Iran and Iraq are already internally complex and mutually hostile mixes of secular and absolutist religious and political currents. The West itself is indebted to those Eastern philosophers who preserved some of its great mathematical and philosophical traditions.