The West is in a war against Muslim radicalism. Some prefer to call it a war on terror. Others prefer to ignore it all together, hoping that it will go away. John Kerry wanted to manage it so that it would be minor – a few Westerners killed each month – so that the problem could be ignored, like car crashes.
But as the problem has grown over the past two decades, culminating on the attacks of 9/11, it has become impossible for most Americans to ignore.
George Bush’s administration has managed to break out of the mindset that has hobbled the West in its reaction to Muslim aggression. It has done this with a combination of military force and political action. The result has been successful beyond the expectations of even this interested observer.
But who am I? The fact is that a large part of the Washington intelligentsia was totally wrong even as recently as last year. Victor David Hansen is impolite enough to quote some of the more prominent in an essay that devastates the conventional thinkers.
Read the whole thing. It starts thus:
Brent Scowcroft predicted on the eve of the Iraqi elections that voting there would increase the risk of civil war. Indeed, he foresaw “a great potential for deepening the conflict.” He also once assured us that Iraq “could become a Vietnam in a way that the Vietnam war never did.” Did he mean perhaps worse than ten years of war and over 50,000 American dead, with the Cambodian holocaust next door?
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