The Case For World War IV By DANIEL JOHNSON

I am an admirer of Rudy Giuliani, the greatest mayor New York has ever had, who deserves his place in history whether or not he realizes his presidential ambitions. I am also a fan of the British professor of history at Harvard, Niall Ferguson, whose books — such as "Colossus, Empire" and most recently "The War of the World" — are big, bold, scholarly and rightly popular.

Mr. Ferguson also writes an influential column in London's Sunday Telegraph. This week he devoted it to a harsh critique of Mr. Giuliani's "naïve" ideas about foreign policy, and in particular any historical analogies between the present war on terror and past global conflicts.

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