Hi D&O,
Read it. Very powerful. Much more in line with my thinking than obama's bland public pronouncements.
i expect he knows they are fatuous but they have a value in giving no help to the kinds of folks one wants no help from.
at any rate, the constructive point of the article is that this species of radicalism can do something useful - turn moslems against al qaeda - and it is doomed to failure once it is contained. patience seems to be called for.