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Washington's double vision: al-Qaida, Iran and Global Islamofascism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Paul Rogers
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The United States needs to keep the focus on al-Qaida while targeting Iran. It isn't easy.

There's no escaping Iraq. Two incidents in recent days bear heavily on the unending conflict in that country. More broadly, they reveal how the United States administration's definition of its "war on terror" (or “long war”) reflects entrapment in a way of thinking that requires it constantly to press the real world into the service of a partisan, dangerous, and self-defeating ideology.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 8 , August 2007 , e16
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