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Michael Barone - Our Covert Enemies

The default assumption of our covert enemies is that in any conflict between the West and the Rest, the West is wrong.

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Aug 21, 2006
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May Day 1971: Daniel Ellsberg on Joining Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn at  Historic Antiwar Direct Action
Daniel Ellsberg, Noam Chomsky, and Howard Zinn at the 1971 May Day protest in Washington, D.C.

by Michael Barone
August 21, 2006

In our war against Islamo-fascist terrorism, we face enemies both overt and covert. The overt enemies are, of course, the terrorists themselves. Their motives are clear: They hate our society because of its freedoms and liberties, and want to make us all submit to their totalitarian form of Islam. They are busy trying to wreak harm on us in any way they can. Against them we can fight back, as we did when British authorities arrested the men and women who were plotting to blow up a dozen airliners over the Atlantic.

Our covert enemies are harder to identify, for they live in large numbers within our midst. And in terms of intentions, they are not enemies in the sense that they consciously wish to destroy our society. On the contrary, they enjoy our freedoms and often call for their expansion. But they have also been working, over many years, to undermine faith in…

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