Monday, July 25, 2005
Victor Davis Hanson
Hoover Institute fellow Victor Davis Hanson has a great column at NRO which should restore some historical context to the current discussion about how best to fight Islamic terrorism. He favors a fight over the myriad kinds of appeasement which the West has tried. I was struck by his pointing out this rather obvious (in retrospect) fact:
...Islamicists are selective in their attacks and hatred. So far global jihad avoids two billion Indians and Chinese, despite the fact that their countries are far tougher on Muslims than is the United States or Europe. In other words, the Islamicists target those whom they think they can intimidate and blackmail.
Which of the two political parties in the U.S. has done more to give them the idea they can intimidate and blackmail us?
...Islamicists are selective in their attacks and hatred. So far global jihad avoids two billion Indians and Chinese, despite the fact that their countries are far tougher on Muslims than is the United States or Europe. In other words, the Islamicists target those whom they think they can intimidate and blackmail.
Which of the two political parties in the U.S. has done more to give them the idea they can intimidate and blackmail us?
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 3:48 AM 
