Walid Phares
Walid Phares
Walid Pharesis an American scholar of Lebanese Maronite Christian extraction. He is a commentator on global terrorism and Middle Eastern affairs...
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Americans are not fighting nor being targeted by an abstract called terrorism, but a growing body of ideological concepts. They need to know what is it they are up against.
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They're like two animals facing one another. Who is going to make the first move and what's it going to be?
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There's an international audience for (the trial), but also a domestic one and an audience within the greater Arab world. (If) the Arab world sees Iraqi trying Iraqi, in an Iraqi courtroom under Iraqi law, it sends a message more powerful than any international court (could send) that a new day truly is here.
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It works very well, (but) it will seem strange to American eyes. No lawyers doing battle with each other, no O.J.-type trial dramatics.