| For our final class, a look at the articles below. Each provides a bit of background and analysis regarding the current controversies over terrorism and the US policy toward Afghanistan. |
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Bernard Lewis (1990) analyzed the roots of anti-American attitudes in the Muslim world |
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Two views of the "blowback" concept, by Thomas Henricksen and Dilip Hiro |
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The Atlantic Monthly examines previous attempts to explain terrorism |
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Franklin Foer denounces the ideological imbalance in Middle Eastern studies |
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Fouad Ajami analyzes Al Jazeera, the "Osama bin Laden channel" |