May 29th, 2008 by Sarah

Lawrence Pintak, Jeremy Ginges, and Nicholas Felton opine in the New York Times that President Bush’s description of the Arab media as a purveyor of anti-American propaganda reflects a broader failure to use Arab journalists as a potential “weapon in the war of ideas against terrorism.”

Bret Stephens, writing for the Wall Street Journal, condemns the Department of Homeland Security’s recommendation to use the term “progress” instead of “liberty” when defining foreign policy goals.  While the DHS issued these recommendations in order to “better engage the Muslim world,” Stephens suggests that doing so sidesteps our true policy goals of ending totalitarianism, and he argues that the U.S. should not shrink from using the word “liberty.”

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