As good an example as any of the conflation of very different causes under the Islamist rubric occurs in a Wall Street Journal editorial today, praising George W. Bush for selective declassification of the National Intelligence Estimate, which they interpret as a victory for their stance the previous day against selective disclosure of classified information. Anyway --
On balance, we have supported that policy, just as we have supported a more robust, pro-active policy against Islamic terror since its emergence more than three decades ago at the Munich Olympics.
One wonders if part of the appeal of the Munich reference is the echo of 1930s Germany.
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