response to Erico

Submitted by Geno M. (United States), May 2, 2008 at 00:35

Thank you for the positive comments. I concur with your thoughts re. a weak link in mainstream political resonance.

As for your suggested books, I've read two of the three and just ordered the book In Praise Of Prejudice. May I suggest one in return. Nuclear Terrorism by Graham Allison (copyright 2004) may make it hard for a person to ever sleep soundly again. But it conveys a message that needs to be heard. The author makes a compelling case by framing nuclear terrorism as a "when it happens" certainty, as opposed to an "if it will happen" possibility.

Sadly, given the facts at play it is difficult for the reasonable mind to draw any other conclusion but that we are in store for a nuclear event that will make 9/11 pale by comparison. My only hope is that from the ashes of this nightmare we will find the focus necessary to do the hard things that will be necessary in order to save Western civilization from being absorbed into Dar al Islam.

I take some small comfort in the words and courage of fellows like Dr. Pipes, Mark Steyn, Robert Spencer and others who put their lives on the line in order to unmask this so-called "religion of peace" for the ominous force of malevolence that it really is.

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