12.11.05

Wake up call I

"We are just beginning to understand the magnitude of the challenge" of militant Islam, he said, "and I don't think we've got much in the way of the conceptual apparatus that we need."
When asked what year 2005 might compare to in the analogy to the cold war, Mr. Pike at first demurred, saying the parallel was too inexact. But when pressed, he said, "1922."
If that's the case, then more than a little history waits to play out.