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World War IV

Last night, on CNN’s Headline News, I saw a two minute clip on a meeting/demonstration in London put on by British Muslims. The whole thing was generically anti-Western, but the effect became especially powerful when two Muslims were interviewed. Both were intelligent, well-dressed and well-spoken, with educated English accents. Here is the gist of what they said (a near quote): "You Westerners don’t understand that your understanding of democracy, freedom, human rights, capitalism, and all those things you hold dear are nothing more than figments of your imagination. There is no freedom, no democracy, no human rights, except in Islam. And we mean this and you will lose. Islam will rule." I was looking into the eyes of an ideologue, of a fanatic, of a tyrant. Such scenes, and such graphic and and clear voices, will be replayed over the next many years, and we should be reminded of not only who they are, and what they stand for, but also of who we are, and why they hate us. It was shocking. More such interviews should be done and shown. I looked for it on CNN’s web site, and couldn’t find it.

Norman Podhoretz writes a lengthy essay in the September issue of Commentary (PDF file, long) called "World War IV: How It Started, What It means, and Why We Have to Win." In it, he says that he has tried to step back from the pressure of events "to piece together the story of what this nation has been fighting to accomplish since September 11, 2001." He thinks the only way to understand it all is by calling it World War IV. While I don’t doubt that much of this lengthy piece can be disagreed with, I also don’t doubt that it will be worth reading. I’ll try to read it tonight. In the meantime, the Belmont Club has a few good paragraphs on it.

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When will the main stream get it? The Muslims are not our friends, they won’t condemn the monstous behavior of the "radicals" because at the root of it they argree, we are unclean infidels.

I know it is irrational and a most difficult concept to grasp, but these people want to kill us, kill all of us, only because we exist. Once this concept is grasped the solution is obvious and clear.

The survivor of this contest will not be the most sensitive, it will not be the one with the largest coalition of nations, it will quite simply be the one with the resolve and fortitude to do the horrible job that must be done to erase it from the face of the earth.

War is ugly and distateful, so let’s bring it to them with such violence and rage that they will never again wish to taste it.

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