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Pierre Manent-Pascal Bruckner: "The West's worst enemy is the West itself"

2021-09-10T18:10:59.268Z


MAJOR INTERVIEW - Twenty years after the September 11 attacks, the Taliban are once again masters of Afghanistan, authoritarian regimes are taking hold and Islamism is triumphing in several parts of the world. Does the West still have a future? Pierre Manent and Pascal Bruckner discuss it.


Twenty years ago the twin towers of the World Trade Center collapsed in New York, and with them, many intellectual illusions. The dream of perpetual peace, happy globalization and democratic convergence gave way to the return of the tragic. Twenty years later, the Taliban are once again masters of Afghanistan, authoritarian regimes are taking hold and Islamism is triumphing in several parts of the world. Does the West still have a future? The author of

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* is worried to see the dogma triumph overwhelmingly that there are no peoples with profound cultural differences, but only individuals with rights. For his part, the author of

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**, favorable to the intervention in Iraq in 2003 before modifying its position, deplores the feeling of unhealthy guilt of the West which leads to civilizational suicide.

LE FIGARO.

- Twenty years ago the attacks of September 11 took place.

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