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Byline: Greg Pierce, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Root of the problem
Liberals need to face up to the terrorist threat, just as the leading liberals of the time faced up to communist totalitarianism in 1947 at a meeting at the Willard Hotel in Washington, writes Peter Beinart, editor of the New Republic magazine.
"Today, three years after September 11 brought the United States face-to-face with a new totalitarian threat, liberalism has still not 'been fundamentally reshaped' by the experience," Mr. Beinart said.
"On the right, a 'historical re-education' has indeed occurred - replacing the isolationism of the Gingrich Congress with George W. Bush and Dick Cheney's near-theological faith in the transformative capacity of U.S. military might. But American liberalism, as defined by its activist organizations, remains largely what it was in the 1990s - a collection of domestic interests and concerns.
"On health care, gay rights, and the environment, there is a positive vision, articulated with passion. But there is little liberal passion to win the struggle against al Qaeda - even though totalitarian...
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