TheoCon

Tony Blair is fast becoming one of the great leaders in the world. He is articulate and sees the danger that we all face.

Tony Blair

What is happening today out in the Middle East, in Afghanistan and beyond is an elemental struggle about the values that will shape our future.

It is in part a struggle between what I will call Reactionary Islam and Moderate, Mainstream Islam. But its implications go far wider. We are fighting a war, but not just against terrorism but about how the world should govern itself in the early 21st century, about global values.

The root causes of the current crisis are supremely indicative of this. Ever since September 11th, the U.S. has embarked on a policy of intervention in order to protect its and our future security. Hence Afghanistan. Hence Iraq. Hence the broader Middle East initiative in support of moves towards democracy in the Arab world.

The American liberal left better wake up or else one day they will wake up from their hatred of the right sitting in a madrassa learning the Qur’an in Arabic. We are at war. It is a war on multiple fronts against Islamofascists, moderate Muslims sympathetic to Islamofascists, and the liberal appeasement mentality. Just because we don’t see riots in the Arab streets it doesn’t mean they don’t hate us. We cannot convert them by delivering them from poverty. We cannot deter them by giving them land. They are brainwashed from infants to hate us. The only way to save ourselves and future generations of Muslim children is to completely defeat the Islamofascists now.