This is the most cogent piece I've seen since the 9/11 Commission report surfaced. Brooks is dead on. Thomas Friedman has been writing in this vein for years. The Commission emphasized in its press briefing that the US suffers from a failure of imagination. Brooks, in different words, is saying the same.
"The 9/11 commission report argues that we have to fight this war on two fronts. We have to use intelligence, military, financial and diplomatic capacities to fight Al Qaeda. That's where most of the media attention is focused. But the bigger fight is with a hostile belief system that can't be reasoned with but can only be 'destroyed or utterly isolated.'"
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