"American Enterprise Institute
The 2007 Irving Kristol Lecture by Bernard Lewis
http://aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.25815/pub_detail.asp
Annual Dinner 2007
My topic this evening is Europe and Islam. But let me begin with a word of personal explanation. You are accustomed for the most part to hearing from people with direct practical involvement in military and intelligence matters. I cannot offer you that. My direct involvement with military and intelligence matters ended quite a long time ago – to be precise, on 31st August 1945, when I left His Majesty's Service and returned to the university to join with colleagues in trying to cope with a six-year backlog of battle-scarred undergraduates. "
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