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A proposal for containing "radical Islam"

E-mail|Link|Comments (0) Posted by Michael Paulson July 27, 2008 10:22 AM

In the Ideas section of today's Globe, Navy Commander Philip Kapusta and Marine Captain Donovan Campbell make a proposal for what they call "neocontainment." An excerpt:

"What we face today is not wholly novel: It is a war of ideas, mirroring the Cold War. Like the Communists, violent Islamic extremists are trying to spread a worldview that denigrates personal liberty and demands submission to a narrow ideology. And, as with the Cold War, it must be our goal to stop them. The United States should therefore adopt a new version of the policy that served us so well during that last long war: containment."

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Michael Paulson covers religion for The Boston Globe. He shared in the Pulitzer Prize in 2003, won the Mike Berger, Templeton and Supple awards in 2008, and is a four-time winner of the Wilbur Award.
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