Donald Sensing pens a powerful piece on why radical Islam hates us and why this is a war of civilizations.
Yussuf al-Ayyeri, one of Osama bin Laden's closest associates since the early 1990s, was one of the terrorists killed by Saudi security forces in Riyadh last June. Not long before, wrote a book published by al Qaeda entitled, The Future of Iraq and The Arabian Peninsula After The Fall of Baghdad . In it Ayyeri wrote, as Amir Taheri summarized"It is not the American war machine that should be of the utmost concern to Muslims. What threatens the future of Islam, in fact its very survival, is American democracy." . . .
I watched in dismay this evening as a reporter in Baghdad smugly opined (paraphrasing from memory) "The Arabic world wants change, they want self determination, they simply do not want the US delivering it to them". The sheer fecklessness of such a statement begs the question: why then haven't they done so?
As the Europeans are discovering, no one is safe. We hurdled past diplomacy and appeasment on September 12th. Anyone who thinks electing new leadership and playing possum will prevent future attacks is fooling themselves. These words "Those without swords may still die upon them." are as true today as when Tolkien wrote his epic battle of good and evil before the gathering storm of fascism and Stalinism crashed upon Western civilization.