Comments on: American Foreign Policy Council’s Ilan Berman Exhorts the West to Find Its Backbone http://www.heatherrobinson.net/blog/2009/10/14/american-foreign-policy-council%e2%80%99s-ilan-berman-exhorts-the-west-to-find-its-backbone/ Journalist - Middle East Commentator Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:16:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: Marylin Pitz http://www.heatherrobinson.net/blog/2009/10/14/american-foreign-policy-council%e2%80%99s-ilan-berman-exhorts-the-west-to-find-its-backbone/#comment-23336 Marylin Pitz Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:23:36 +0000 http://www.heatherrobinson.net/blog/2009/10/14/american-foreign-policy-council%e2%80%99s-ilan-berman-exhorts-the-west-to-find-its-backbone/#comment-23336 I agree with much reviewer Ms. Robinson and Berman say. Wonder how both would gauge the view of Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International, and mid-East "optimist" who sees the rise of extremism in the region as a sign that modernity (not religious tradition)is advancing, not retreating, and that the extremists (Taliban, Iran) can't convince their populations to support them in any other way, so they are using violence or its threat---but will not be able to, for many reasons, indefinitely. He cites communications and the migrating of other national political systems toward democracy, as finally favoring movement in direction of the west. His quote: "there is light at the end of the tunnel---there's just no tunnel (yet)." I agree with much reviewer Ms. Robinson and Berman say.
Wonder how both would gauge the view of
Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International, and mid-East “optimist” who sees the rise of extremism in the region as a sign that modernity (not religious tradition)is advancing, not retreating, and that the extremists (Taliban, Iran) can’t convince their populations to support them in any other way, so they are using violence
or its threat—but will not be able to, for many reasons, indefinitely. He cites communications and the migrating of other national political systems toward democracy, as finally favoring
movement in direction of the west. His quote: “there is light at the end of the tunnel—there’s just no tunnel (yet).”

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