Recommended reading: Berman interview at typoskript.net time again I have to thank the friends of the open society
a valuable reading:
Paul Berman, who will become part of the democratic left in America with his book Terror and Liberalism
? was perceived in Germany also by a wider audience, is in an interview
the Jewish Internet magazine "
typoskript.net " questions.
noticing and reading, as this passage illustrates, perhaps, in which he, in his view "triple naivety" of many people in the West again takes aim:
"For the first it seems as the place terrorists only a small phenomenon, Perhaps it is only a few hundred people that could be mixed up quickly by police and special forces. This should solve the problem. If we do this and do will not do anything stupid that would bring back a few hundred to follow the terrorists, would be the theme done. But that is in my eyes very naive. For my opinion, the terrorists themselves are only the radical, armed Wing of a political movement, which in reality has many millions of followers. may turn a few hundred to be a good idea, but the problem would be solved. Millions are ready to support these ideas. This is an illusion.
The second naive is to believe that there must be some for terrorist acts normal, rational and legitimate circumstance that justifies this, ie that the violence reflected the terrorists something Actual and thus a kind of rational analysis of events follows. Look, for example, the discussion about Clinton and Barak's offer at Camp David, it has been assessed as inadequate. Because 95% of the country were not enough, it had 97%, 98% or even 100% has to be. This small difference is said to have made three million people so crazy that they saw no other response than to kill themselves and thousands of others? Only because of a few square kilometers of land? So if this is not the deplorable state of affairs was understandable, so there must have been probably another, and as the United States must have all done something terrible, but we have not really noticed. Perhaps the U.S. has supported the Arabs or not enough that we have supported the wrong Arabs or anything else. Everyone is looking for a reasonable, rational reason for the understandable maladministration, who founded the terrorist. But in my view, there are some countries and some political movements, the best with the word? Totalitarian? describe are, for example, operate on the basis of mythological imagination and paranoid conspiracy theories. This may be my opinion, not analyzed and understood by for rational reasons and substantive explanations.
The third great naivete there is a lot of people is that they consider America to fascist or see but on the way to fascism. This is a view that share a lot of people outside the United States, but it is also a certain number of Americans who are of this hysteria after the attacks are caught. Now Bush has promoted this view perhaps, his lack of education, his inability to communicate, his refusal to understand other views and even his qualities that I think is disgusting?. Nevertheless. The conclusion, America is, or becomes a fascist state, a wild illusion, a complete nonsense "(Source: typoskript.net) is
