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Doomed for Multiple Reasons

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Submitted by Alex (United States), Jul 22, 2013 at 19:15

I would add that in addition to "deep Middle East patterns," two other factors further doom Islamism to failure:

1) Islamism's lack of a practical plan for economic or political behavior; and 2) what I think is the inherently suicidal basis of all totalitarian ideologies, Islamism included.

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