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Entry: Declining "The West" Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/declining_the_west#24658 Post contents: <i>“Ideological struggles” are about conversion, about upturning the other side...</i>. Not for Edmund Burke. Yes, he identified the French Revolution as an "armed doctrine", comparing it to the Reformation as an international, ideological threat. (I think that was in "Thoughts on French Affairs", I'm not sure.) But you don't have to respond to that threat in kind, by trying to convert or upturn the other side. Burke didn't, and I doubt that Robert Spencer is either. On that Pinkerton column, I agree with Richard. It was the kind of nutty idea that a neocon would come up with if a neocon tried to come up with a paleocon idea. Sent at: 2008 12 02