The Problem With Third Worldism
Foreign Affairs The Problem With Third Worldism A new way of understanding America’s enemies obscures more than it reveals. Luke Nicastro Jul 23, 2026 12:05 AM Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... For many neocons at the height of the War on Terror, this was the term of choice to describe America’s enemies.
- ▪Foreign Affairs The Problem With Third Worldism A new way of understanding America’s enemies obscures more than it reveals.
- ▪Luke Nicastro Jul 23, 2026 12:05 AM Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player...
- ▪For many neocons at the height of the War on Terror, this was the term of choice to describe America’s enemies.
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| Original publisher | The American Conservative |
| Canonical URL | https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-problem-with-third-worldism/ |
| Publication time | Thu, 23 Jul 2026 04:05:00 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-23T04:29:06.762Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-23T04:41:12.402Z |
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Foreign Affairs The Problem With Third Worldism A new way of understanding America’s enemies obscures more than it reveals. Luke Nicastro Jul 23, 2026 12:05 AM Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Remember Islamofascism? For many neocons at the height of the War on Terror, this was the term of choice to describe America’s enemies. Compared to the alternatives, the label had much to recommend it. As William Safire noted in the New York Times in 2006: Islamic radicalism seems long, bookish and weak, because a radical need not be any kind of terrorist…[and] militant jihadist is redundant if you take jihad to mean “holy war.” Plus some Muslim scholars translate the Arabic word as “spiritual struggle,” from jahada, “to strive,” and besides, jihad is too unfamiliar to…
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