By way of The Pugil Stick:"A high and solemn responsibility rests upon us here of a Europe striving to be reborn. If we allow ourselves to be rent by pettiness and small disputes, if we fail in clarity of view or courage in action; a priceless occasion may be cast away forever. But if we all pull together and firmly grasp the larger hopes of humanity, then it may be that we shall move into a happier sunlit age, when all the children who are now growing up in this tormented world may find themselves not the victors nor the vanquished in the fleeting triumphs of one country over another, but the heirs of all the treasures of the past and the masters of all the science, the abundance and glories of the future."-Sir Winston Churchill
This from The Anchoress:
Churchill’s necessary policy of 1940 is the necessary policy of today. Fighting against an enemy so cowardly they refuse to wear a uniform, so bereft of shame that they revel in the shedding of innocent blood, there can be no other policy but war and victory. AlQ has stated that it attacked the UK because of its involvement in Iraq. It does not explain what were its reasons for all of those attacks before we invaded Iraq. Spain pulled out…they got attacked again, anyway.
Terrorism did not begin with the presidency of George W. Bush and the invasion of Iraq, no matter how much Barbara Boxer and Al Franken would like us to believe it.
Christopher Hitchens, among others, knows better:
It is ludicrous to try and reduce this to Iraq. Europe is steadily becoming a part of the civil war that is roiling the Islamic world, and it will require all our cultural ingenuity to ensure that the criminals who shattered London’s peace at rush hour this morning are not the ones who dictate the pace and rhythm of events from now on."
Amir Taheri knows better, too:
But sorry, old chaps, you are dealing with an enemy that does not want anything specific, and cannot be talked back into reason through anger management or round-table discussions. Or, rather, this enemy does want something specific: to take full control of your lives, dictate every single move you make round the clock and, if you dare resist, he will feel it his divine duty to kill you.
Terrorism did not begin with and will not end with the presidency of George W. Bush…it may not end in our lifetime. But our enemies would as soon kill us as look at us and if they could slaughter 38,000 instead of 38, they would do so with relish. An enemy that looks only to kill the infidel or die trying is an enemy that will only be defeated if they are convinced that they will never win.And if the cultures that produce these enemies can get a sense of hope that they are not damned to lifetimes under religious or secular tyranny, perhaps they will stop producing them.
The Mary Hunter at Bacon Bits has an excellent dissection of Daniel Henninger's Opinion Journal editorial regarding the London bombings and what it means for politics in this country where the left would prefer to blame terrorism on George W. Bush and let all the criminals in Guantanamo loose to strike again.
Both pieces are highly recommended.
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