McCain’s campaign framed radical Islamic extremism as the century’s defining challenge

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Capably aided by his longtime friend and confident Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, who in American politics acts as though he were an Israeli agent at large, Senator McCain offered his principle take on Arabs and Muslims throughout his campaign in a very simple mantra: “Radical Islamic extremism is the transcendent challenge of the twenty-first century.” — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 569