Posted 6/03/2002 10:13:00 AM by Ocean Guy
This column is OK even though his facts are a little wrong. (I almost always hear the dispute in Ireland referred to in religious terms… Catholics v Protestants.) However in reading the rest of this lament to our ignorance I have to ask why he isn’t dong more to highlight those differences. In too many cases the Islamic world puts on the veil of homogeneity, deliberately playing down the internal differences. That only hinders our efforts to understand the battle. Too often we are left waiting for our enemies to identify themselves.

Thomas Friedman and Paul Wolfowitz have different takes on the conflict within Islam and what we should do about it. The only thing certain in that "war" is that we are going to experience its violence.