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Nidal Malik Hasan
Jonah Goldberg: If 'evil' doesn't apply to the Islamic State, what does?

I never liked it when George W. Bush used the term "evildoers" to describe al-Qaida and other terrorists. Other people objected as well, but for different reasons. I didn't like the term because it always sounded to me like he was saying "evil Dewar's," as in the blended Scotch. The more common objection was that it was simplistic, Manichean, imperialistic and cartoonish. "Perhaps without even realizing it," Peter Roff, then with UPI, wrote in October 2001, "the president is using language that recalls a simpler time when good and evil seemed more easy to identify — a time when issues, television programs and movies were more black and...