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America needs to use hard power against terrorists, but it cannot hope to win the struggle against terrorism unless it gains the hearts and minds of moderates.
This alliance of Middle East moderates comes with a price that neither Israel nor the Bush administration seems ready to pay.
Given ambivalence among Arab moderates, there remains a chance to isolate the extremists and gradually build stable polities with broader participation.
Growing numbers of people, even moderates, are moving into active opposition.
Forget the French Revolution as a model: the so-called Thermidorian Reaction, when moderates ended Robespierre’s Reign of Terror, was an exception to the pattern of modern revolutions.
The typical pattern during our living memory is that the hardliners come after the moderates.
Curiously, while many Americans and Europeans want moderate Muslim voices to succeed in Indonesia (and Southeast Asia), they often undermine moderates with policies that are perceived as anti-Islamic.
America will not win unless the moderates win.
But soft power will play a crucial role in attracting moderates and denying the extremists new recruits.
Nevertheless, the success of Muslim moderates may well depend on how the EU and the US respond to pressure for reform and how they decide to encourage change.
True, fundamentalists are a minority everywhere, but they are stoking widespread fear, loathing, and dreams of salvation, provoking violence and war while weakening moderates forces.
This differs sharply from the experience of the 1930s, when moderates’ failure to attract a large enough share of the Spanish right fueled deepening polarization and, ultimately, civil war.
If Saudi Arabia’s rulers were serious about “participatory government,” they would encourage liberals, moderates, and pragmatists.
Instead, they repress, censor, silence and even imprison the moderates and appease the religious radicals.
Afghanistan, once controlled by extremists, today is led by Hamid Karzai, who is at the forefront of the world's efforts in support of moderates versus extremists.
The high-handed tone of the Hull Note of November 26, demanding Japan’s withdrawal of all its troops from China, was a final blow to the moderates in Japan’s government, who still hoped for diplomatic negotiations.
As long as moderates keep their heads, a new Netherlands may be born out of the terrible events of the past weeks.
So the moderates are the ones who should get the anti-aircraft and anti-tank weapons.
As political moderates have been pushed out, policy gridlock has worsened, with presidential initiatives routinely blocked by congressional Republicans, even when such proposals were consistent with Republican ideas.
Likewise, misguided fiscal austerity is neither unavoidable nor inextricably linked to globalization – especially the smart kind that moderates short-term capital movements.
Public threats shackle even moderates like Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to hardening public opinion.
At the heart of these questions is another: must liberals and moderates always bow down before the crazy right over national security?
The Islamic world is riven by disputes between Arab and non-Arab, Sunni and Shia, and Salafi extremists and theological moderates.
Once the fighting between Israel and Hamas subsides, the question of what the Arab states will do to strengthen Palestinian moderates and to make peace with Israel is sure to arise.
And that message is music to the ears of moderates, who understand that middle-class, middle-of-the-road voters are often pivotal in national elections.
Doves and moderates on either side of the divide are in retreat.
The center of gravity of the remaining Democrats has moved to the left, because the vast majority of defeated Democrats were moderates from swing districts.
This does not mean that opposition disappears, much less moderates itself; rather, it simmers and incubates – and gathers strength.
Always a pragmatic Communist, the elder Xi had been the target of several purges under Mao, when relative moderates were frequently denounced as counterrevolutionaries.
Of course, moderates on both sides would prefer as much land and room to maneuver as possible, but they prefer a negotiated compromise aimed at ending the violence.
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