But what are we for? What will we risk our lives to defend? Can we unanimously concur that all the items in the preceding list - yes, even the short skirts and the dancing - are worth dying for? Suicidist assassins ram wide-bodied aircraft into the World Trade Center and Pentagon and kill thousands of people: um, I'm against that. I would reverse that proposition, because in the present instance what we are against is a no brainer. United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has said that we should now define ourselves not only by what we are for but by what we are against. Such people are against, to offer just a brief list, freedom of speech, a multi-party political system, universal adult suffrage, accountable government, Jews, homosexuals, women's rights, pluralism, secularism, short skirts, dancing, beardlessness, evolution theory, sex. “The fundamentalist seeks to bring down a great deal more than buildings.
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