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The New World Order is getting messier

From TNR, war on error: Peter Bergen on how Osama Bin Laden beat George W. Bush. The president says that America is engaged in a struggle between good and evil, but is he addressing all citizens when his policies touch so few of us? The New World Order is getting messier: Burma is the most recent example of how rarely the "America vs. terrorists" view of the world holds. More and more and more and more on The Terror Dream by Susan Faludi. A review of The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine and the Birth of Al Qaeda by Yaroslav Trofimov. More on The Al-Qaeda Reader. From the H-Bomb to the Human Bomb: Modern terrorism seeks to combine the annihilating power of Hiroshima with the nihilistic gospel of Auschwitz. Bug bomb: A look at why our next terrorist attack could come on six legs. A review of The Suicide of Reason: Radical Islam's Threat to the West by Lee Harris. More on World War IV by Norman Podhoretz. "Islamofascism": An article on debunking a conservative smear tactic. Christopher Hitchens on defending Islamofascism: It's a valid term—here's why.