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Current Issue	September 11, 2006 Issue The Islamic Way of War By Andrew J. Bacevich Muslims have learned to stop imitating our tactics and have started defeating them. The Enemy of My Enemy By Anders Strindberg By weakening Hezbollah and Hamas, we run the risk of strengthening al-Qaeda. Slow Learners By Scott McConnell Five years into the war on terror, Washington is still no wiser. State in War By Stewart Nusbaumer In Haifa, there are no victors. Excessive—Or Not Enough? By Martin van Creveld An Israeli historian ponders his country’s restraint. War & Peace Parties By W. James Antle III In Connecticut, it’s the war, stupid. Suicide of Brewster By Michael Brendan Dougherty Burnham, basketball, and the colonization of Brewster The Ghost of Suez By Wayne Merry America risks repeating the folly of Suez. False Prophets By Justin Logan For war pundits, there’s no penalty for being wrong.	Fifteen Candles By Steve Sailer It’s hard out here for a Latina in “Quinceanera.” Whit Stillman: From Deb to Disco Balls By Kelly Jane Torrance Whit Stillman chronicles evolving bourgeois life. Private Vices, Public Benefits By Daniel McCarthy In Defense of Hypocrisy: Picking Sides in the War on Virtue by Jeremy Lott Navigating the Age of Revolution By William Anthony Hay A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People? England 1783-1846 by Boyd Hilton Fascists Under the Bed By Patrick J. Buchanan Bush thinks we’re fighting Mussolini. Not So Clean Break By Taki Israel’s enabler Fourteen Days: Profiles in Terror; Picking Sides in Iraq’s Civil War; Amnesty by Another Name Deep Background: Covering Up War Crimes?; Iran Shops for Uranium Copyright © 2006 The American Conservative