Lawrence Auster makes a convincing argument that the idea that we need to "nuke Mecca" is actually a left-wing liberal idea, not a conservative or right-wing one.
This is because it is based on the idea that everyone in the world is the same, or more precisely, should be the same. In particular, everyone has to live by liberal ideas. If they can't do that, the two solutions liberals come up with is first, insist that they can and then try to force them to, and second, if it is hopeless, eliminate them. The idea of people living isolated from the west, and therefore from liberalism, doesn't occur to them.
Granted, this is a somewhat narrow definition of liberalism, as there are many liberals/leftists who seem to be content to be liberal within their own countries or regions and let the rest of the world be, but I think it is a fair description of the internationalist liberals, including the neoliberals (Gore, Clinton) and the neoconservatives.
More on this later.
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