What About Muslim Moderates? - WSJ.com

What About Muslim Moderates? - WSJ.com:

More "bone-headedness" by a boneheaded Bush administration. Woolsey is a died-in-the-wool conservative, and proves what we are widely seeing today -- you don't have to have abandoned your conservative or neo-conservative ideology or conceded its wrongness to be enormously dissapointed and upset with the gross incompetence of the Bush administration.

"Islamist terrorism has led the American and British governments in the past month to launch separate public diplomacy programs aimed at engaging Muslims at home and abroad. A quick comparison shows the two initiatives are headed in opposite directions. At least the Brits have finally got it right.

The Bush administration is building bridges to well-funded and self-publicized organizations that claim to speak for all Muslims, even though some of those groups espouse views inimical to American values and interests. After years of pursuing similar strategies -- while seeing home-based terrorists proliferate -- the Blair-Brown government is now more discerning about which Muslims it will partner with. Stating that 'lip service for peace' is no longer sufficient, the British are identifying and elevating those who are willing to take clear stands against terrorism and its supporting ideology."