LONDON
— The election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party is an
extraordinary choice in many respects — not least for the geopolitical
signal it sends out.
You
may have read that this hard-left maverick is unlikely to win a general
election. You may also have heard that the Conservative Party, buoyed
by its surprise victory in May, cannot believe that the principal
opposition has chosen a new leader who will lead it even further into
the wilderness.
All
that is probably true. But it’s not the end of the story. Along the
way, Mr. Corbyn has an unrivaled opportunity to change the terms of
trade in foreign and security policy, to shatter consensus, to tear
apart bipartisanship.
To
understand what is happening, let’s go back to the beginning. The
attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, were not only planned to maximize carnage and
sow fear. They were also intended to provoke the West into a series of
ferocious responses, not all of them considered or wise.
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