I think the first decade of this century is going to be remembered as a time of extremism.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Now we have a generational threat struggle called Islamist extremism.
Islamic extremism may well be the greatest threat to Western values and Western security in the world.
This century is going to be a very dangerous century.
Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.
Violent extremism is going viral, but our response to it is moving at bureaucratic, sluggish speed.
A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.
We have a rise of extremism because we need to give a sense that we are targeting some of the deeper problems in Greece, the injustices.
Confronting and undermining the narratives and ideas of extremism must therefore be one of our key tasks. To do this, we must retain the courage of our convictions in the face of extremism.
We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.
At the rate we're going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It's going to be pretty violent.
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