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Fahd Ali
\n<\/a>Saturday, January 10, 2015<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
\nFrom Print Edition<\/span><\/p>\n

This is our moment of reckoning. Or it\u2019s supposed to be. We had been waiting for this for such a long time now. The war that ends all wars. The \u2018consensus\u2019 that defeats all ideas.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The more you think about it the more this consensus looks like a bear we have been trying to put to sleep. \u201cHush now, don\u2019t question it.\u201d Otherwise, the consensus will wake up and won\u2019t look like one anymore. And it will run amok, destroying everything that we hold dear. Or the consensus looks like one big bomb \u2013 the bomb that blows all ideologies to smithereens.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

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Fahd Ali Saturday, January 10, 2015\u00a0 From Print Edition This is our moment of reckoning. Or it\u2019s supposed to be. We had been waiting for this for such a long time now. The war that ends all wars. The \u2018consensus\u2019 that defeats all ideas.\u00a0 The more you think about it the more this consensus looks<\/p>\n

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