In his September 12th column in the New York Times, David Brooks put the communitarian thesis into better chosen, fewer words than any of his predecessors. His excellent overview follows very closely on the key points and even the text of the Communitarian Platform (link) and The Spirit of Community.
The RAND Corporation dug into its own funds to produce an unusual report. It seeks to determine how terrorists groups end. It found that in the best cases, they turn into political parties (like the Resistencia Nacional Mozambicana in Mozambique did). When force must be used to end terrorism, a combination of policing and use of intelligence is much more effective than committing conventional armies. The RAND report provides more ammunition to those who reject the metaphor of a "war" against terrorism and all that it evokes. At the same time the report points out that Al Qaeda is especially unlikely to agree to a political settlement, given its ambitions, goals, and religious fundamentalism. To learn more, go here.
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