'''Bernard Lewis''' is one of the West's premier scholars of [[Middle Eastern studies]].
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He wrote in 1986:
* In an interview ... for Fox News' "War Stories," he contrasted how we fought fascism during World War II with the current conflict. He said: "Then we knew who the enemy was. We knew who we were. Nowadays ... we have great difficulty in defining the enemy. We have to be careful not to offend anybody. We don't even seem to be able to define our own cause, let alone the enemy's. This kind of uncertainty makes it very difficult to carry on any sort of struggle." -- Quoted by [[Oliver North]] in [http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20080518/COMMENTARY06/167348068/1012/COMMENTARY Washintgon Times]
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