Too late

Submitted by FinanceDoc (United States), Jun 20, 2008 at 20:42

I was making this same point six years ago. No one listened.

The "liberals" were busy blaming America for 9/11. The politicians were busy telling me that it was important not to alienate 1.2 billion Muslims. The Bushwhackers were busy telling me that we needed Saudi oil and thus could not afford to upset them by closing their madrassas or marginalizing their propaganda arm — CAIR. Bush is clever they said; he is keeping our friends close and our enemies closer. Now I understand that keeping our enemies closer meant inviting them into our bed, and saying, "Thank you sir; may I have another".

Here it is over six years later and oil is $140/barrel, the Islamic studies departments and madrassas are in full-swing globally, inundating young Muslims with the Wahhabi bile for Jews and Christians. The Iranian nuclear program has attained near critical mass, unimpeded by an international community which was burned once in Iraq and will not support another war to prevent a Muslim country from obtaining WMD.

And Pipes is still seeking that ever-elusive moderate Islam. It's too late to worry about identifying the enemy; they have identified us.

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