The Third World versus the West

Uh-oh. I thought we weren't allowed to make such arguments following 9/11:

the resentments underlying the present wave of international terrorism and our reactions to it could aggregate into a prolonged revolutionary epoch sustained by the under-privileged against the over-privileged in order to force the latter to face up to the world’s growing inequalities.

We in the West must, of course, protect ourselves physically against attack, but decisive military victory against dispersed and often unidentifiable groups is notoriously hard to achieve. Therefore we must also be politically inventive in removing the grounds for extremism. In any case, to rely entirely on force where there is patently a need for reform would be to the disgrace of the developed world and, in the long run, probably hazardous in an age of nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) weapons.

Such anti-American drivel!