[New York Sun] Amanda Gordon - Emeritus professor at Princeton University Bernard Lewis told the Washington Institute for Near East Policy on Wednesday, "It's misleading to say we are engaged in a war against terrorism. If Churchill had told us that we were engaged in a war against submarines and war craft, we'd be in a different world today. Terrorism is a tactic, it is not the enemy." The enemy, he said, is Islamism, which he placed as the third in a sequence of ideological deformations that have taken place in his lifetime, the first two being Nazism and Bolshevism. "There is only one way to deal with Islamism: to mobilize the Muslims themselves on our side," Lewis said.
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