I'm sorry, but this guy is a travel writer, correct? And he's being given precious space in a major newspaper to write on foreign policy...why, exactly?
NO...because you cannot fight terrorism with reason.
While I agree with your premise, I take issue with one of your key points. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is in no way a major newspaper!
It's a worthless, biased, inaccurate, slanted liberal rag. Sad to say, it satisfies the reading needs of the majority of Seattleites perfectly.