Rolling Back Radical Islam

Abstract

Peters examines the US response to the violent extremism emanating from the nations of Islam. He cautions America not to be blinded by oil or riveted on the Arab-Israeli conflict. Peters concludes that the optimal engagement of Islamic extremism should take place on Islam's "unsettled frontiers." He recommends that America follow the "roll-back" strategy of the Cold War, a strategy based on waiting for more propitious circumstances before reacting to extremists.