The Battle of the Mosque by Arnold Kling. Publish 07/27 on Tech Central Station
If the Dead Could Talk by Victor David Hansen. Publish today on NRO.
Both of these speak to the challenges of the terror war and how it’s not going to be won with platitudes and irrational idealism. I would add that entrusting our national security to the party of those who formerly eviscerated our intelligence capabilities with budget cuts and who suggest now that we make every islamofascist read “All I Ever Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten” to change their minds about us is not going to win this war.
We need to face the fact that we’re at the beginning of an active conflict with Islamic terrorism, not at the end. This is going to be won by besting the enemy, not surrending to their capability to influence the media. It seems to me the terrorists are in control of the debate in this country, not us.
As VDH says,
billions of American dollars flow to Jordan, Iraq, and Egypt. We have even given billions to that wretched Arafat kleptocracy and saved Muslims from Kuwait to Bosnia. U.S. jets, not deranged riff-raff from Afghanistan, stopped Milosevic. There is no legitimate complaint of the Arab world against the United States — any more than Hitler had a right to Czechoslovakia or the Japanese to Manchuria. Just because the Japanese whined that the cutting-off of U.S. petroleum forced them to bomb Pearl Harbor didn’t make it true.
I apologize in advance for the disjointedness of this missive. I’m in a hurry as I have an exam for my summer class today.