Kouchner and Extremism

In keeping with the goals from our fall conference, Overcoming Extremism: Protecting Civilians from Terrorist Violence, check out this profile of Bernard Kouchner, founder of Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders, on this side of the pond) and current French foreign minister. The common enemy for all democracies, he notes, is extremism.

Thus, I would take it that

Thus, I would take it that extremism in defense of liberty is a contradiction in terms.