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Finally someone mentions the real point: Western values are under siege.
I'm afraid the West just doesn't get it. 9/11 was the first salvo in a war, but the people we're fighting have only one solution on their minds -- the destruction of the West. Because they can't hide in the 14th century if there's a 21st century for their children to escape to . . . or a 21st century to tempt themselves.
http://www.praguepost.com/P03/2006/Art/0223/opin1.php
"The West has naively greeted this scorpion with its Cold War handshake, believing that the virtues of peace and democracy appear self-evident; as if good intentions, by definition, will be good enough. But even the mainstream Islamic mindset has proven inscrutable to the West in a way that communism was mythologized to be but never truly was.
To many Islamic nations, freedom is not a tonic, but a toxin; it's regarded not just as something that permits a challenge to faith, but is a challenge to faith by itself."
I found this browsing Andrew Sullivan's blog. And no -- at this point, I have no idea what we're going to do. I hope the solution one Arab ethnic nation used decades ago (Pakistan? Syria?) won't be the only solution. They made the Islamist fundamentalists disappear in their own country by a scorched earth policy. The government killed all of them they could find, and then razed their cities to the ground.
The new president of Iran clearly wants the End Time to be now -- I wonder if others are trying to provoke him into using nuclear weapons by destroying the shrine of the "Hidden Imam"?
http://www.praguepost.com/P03/2006/Art/0223/opin1.php
"The West has naively greeted this scorpion with its Cold War handshake, believing that the virtues of peace and democracy appear self-evident; as if good intentions, by definition, will be good enough. But even the mainstream Islamic mindset has proven inscrutable to the West in a way that communism was mythologized to be but never truly was.
To many Islamic nations, freedom is not a tonic, but a toxin; it's regarded not just as something that permits a challenge to faith, but is a challenge to faith by itself."
I found this browsing Andrew Sullivan's blog. And no -- at this point, I have no idea what we're going to do. I hope the solution one Arab ethnic nation used decades ago (Pakistan? Syria?) won't be the only solution. They made the Islamist fundamentalists disappear in their own country by a scorched earth policy. The government killed all of them they could find, and then razed their cities to the ground.
The new president of Iran clearly wants the End Time to be now -- I wonder if others are trying to provoke him into using nuclear weapons by destroying the shrine of the "Hidden Imam"?