The real war

Jerusalem Post Editorial:

We, the nations of the world, are in a strange war. It is strange because its outcome hinges primarily on whether the side being attacked will admit that war has been declared against it and decides to fight back.

The 9/11 attacks were the culmination of years of Western denial, despite devastating attacks over many years directed at Americans and others. If the pre-9/11 level of denial was, in retrospect, surprising, the post-9/11 refusal to recognize the war that we are in is even more striking.

How many "9/11s" does the world have to experience before we get it? A seemingly offhand sentence in The New York Times news report of the horrific bombings in Sharm e-Sheikh yesterday, killing over 80 people, perhaps inadvertently illustrates how widely the current conflict is misunderstood.

"The bombings provided a gruesome coda to a week in which suicide bombers had threatened cities from Iraq to Britain to Egypt, lending to the impression of a rising tide of terror spilling from the conflicts of the region." [emphasis added].

Yes, the terror epidemic seems to have returned.

But in reality, it never left. And it is not spillover from "conflicts in the region" but from the refusal to systematically address a particularly potent epidemic: of the symbiotic/parasitic relationship between militant Islam and the dictatorships of the Muslim world.

It goes without saying that not all Muslims support terrorism, but it is equally understood that all of the terrorists carrying out these "9/11s" are Islamists. And though some or all of the London bombers seemed to have been raised in Britain, the al-Qaida ideology they followed was incubated in places like Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Egypt.

...The terrorists are out to make the world safe for Islamist theocracies on the model of Afghanistan under the Taliban and Iran today, pure and simple.

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...The militant Islamists cannot be appeased, they must be destroyed, and to do that they must be deprived of support, breeding grounds and sanctuary. No Arab or European country is safe from them.

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