Posted by
Michael on Tuesday, November 14, 2006 6:18:50 PM
As I sit here in the middle of a packed Seattle cafe, I should be studying geology. I have a quiz tomorrow and it's pretty important that I do well on it. However, I got started to reading some of
Dean Barnett's commentary on Hugh Hewitt's blog and you can imagine how that resulted. Barnett is great even when I disagree him, a sure sign of an addictive writer. I'd probably rank him behind Hitch and then Steyn in my favorites.
Yesterday, he wrote "It's the Jihad, stupid," an article that started with the Iraq Study Group but soon went into the popularity of jihadism throughout the Muslim world. Not enough can be said about this. It's unfortunate that many of the key races in this past election got stuck on which candidate or PAC might be racist or sexually suggestive lines in books written about South Asia.
Here's part of
Barnett's article:I
call on looking-for-work politicians like Rick Santorum, Chris Chocola
and New Gingrich who understand the threat to take this message to
every Podunk little TV station and eager Elks Lodge that will host
them. Progress here will be measured in inches, not miles. But if we do
this right, we can make sure the Republican presidential primary
revolves around this issue and that it gets a good airing for the first
time. They should also be reaching out to potential allies in the
Islamic world who are as appalled by the Jihadist menace as we are.
I’ve
written here many times of how Winston Churchill spent the 1930’s as a
back bencher doing everything in his power to convince his countrymen
of the threat posed by Nazi Germany. It took a cataclysm for Great
Britain to finally agree with him, but at least he tried. And when his
hour finally came, he saved his country.
Now, didn't we already have that cataclysm on September 11, 2001? I will concede that I'm young, and was (and may still be) very stupid. I thought that terrorism was a result of bad US policy just like any good liberal.
But after seeing the planes hit the towers and the many attacks throughout the world, from Spain to India, how can politicians not be hollering about this at the top of their lungs?