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However, identifying the threat and crafting the solution are two distinct endeavors. Harris clearly identifies the threat but seems more inclined to then pivot and blame liberalism for our inability to confront the issue rather that offer any reasoned solutions. By acknowledging that liberalism is “generally reasonable and tolerant of diversity” and at the same time blaming it for not combating religious literalism is incongruent logic. In reality, liberalism clearly understands the dangers of religious literalism which is exactly why it promotes reasonability and tolerance. Further, that understanding is why liberals believe that the war in Iraq and the war on terror will ultimately require political solutions rather than an ever expanding military strategy.

As world population and a world economy continue to expand, our abilities to prevent the inherent racial, cultural, and religious clashes that come with proximity will become more challenging. Succumbing to the absolutism that accompanies any us/them equation is certain to trigger accelerated conflict. It is essential we refrain from adopting a broad brush strokes mentality. A reactionary strategy is nothing more than the fuel for escalation. In the end, it is individuals who define the differences upon which conflict is predicated…whether they be Islamist, Liberal, or otherwise. It will be the politics of leadership that will eventually bridge the divide.

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Thank you for proving my contention “it doesn’t matter how many liberal bone fides you list, once you take the opinion expressed by Harris, much of the left will consider you an apostate and turn against you.”

Donklephant is not a Republican talking points blog and this post is not a Republican talking points post. To think otherwise is just willful blindness.

Anyone who has delved deeply at all into their faith knows about that doorway to fanaticism, and has a good idea of what lies beyond it. Not just knowledge in rational terms, but knowledge at the gut level. It’s that window into the soul of the jihadist which informs our opinion of their potential reasonableness.

Do you really need an administration to help you see reality? On an issue like this, who waits every 4 years for someone to lay out the facts/issues for them before they form an opinion or come to a conclusion? This is like hearing about those undecided voters for the ’04 election – IN SEPTEMBER ’04! I think the Daily Show did a skit on these people. The crux of the skit was: WTF! What will it take for you to make up your mind!

Muslim extremists are a huge threat. Muslim moderates who are enablers of the extremists are a huge threat. GWB and the incompetent way he has conducted this war is a huge threat. Fundamentalist/Evangelical Christians in the US who believe in the End-of-Days are a huge threat. I can go one. There is a mountain of evidence to back these claims up. These issues are not necessarily mutually exclusive. This should not be an issue for anyone (Liberal or Conservative).

I’d considered the first part of that, but never the second. But it makes sense. If there is no honest leadership coming from the left in regards to the biggest conflict of our day, then the average American will look to the one place where they can find real fortitude: the far right.

And yet, as I have so often learned, it doesn’t matter how many liberal bone fides you list, once you take the opinion expressed by Harris, much of the left will consider you an apostate and turn against you.

This is not a problem that will be solved quickly or calmly.