A clash of civilizations

In FrontPage Magazine, Daniel Greenfield writes today,

Under Obama, the Muslim Brotherhood was in the White House and Hezbollah had a free hand.

The War on Terror also reached its height in the creative and relentless attacks on Al Qaeda and the Taliban after 9/11. But, before long, that campaign degenerated into nation-building, endless legal proceedings for captured terrorists in the Bush era, and feeding thousands of soldiers into a meat-grinder with restrictive rules of engagement and negotiations with the Taliban in the Obama era.

By 2003, our response to Islamic terrorism had reached its peak. It’s been downhill from there.

…Flight 93 is a reminder that we are a brave and courageous people. But that we have to wake up first.

And to wake up, we have to understand what it is we’re facing. On September 11, 2001, hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, and eventually millions of Americans were forced to wake up.

Some died. Most went back to sleep. And some still remember.

9/11 was neither a beginning nor an ending. The war we are in has gone on for over a thousand years. It might go on for another thousand making a mockery of the appeasers who lecture about “endless war.”

Wars go on for as long as one side is willing to fight them. The nightmarish reality is that the other side is willing to fight forever. That is a truth too troubling for most people to come to terms with.

But until we understand that, we will have learned absolutely nothing from September 11, 2001.

This is not WW2. It’s not the Cold War. It’s a clash of civilizations. Technology, jet planes and the internet, have allowed our civilizations to overlap each other. War is the inevitable result.

Immigration, not bullets and bombs, is the main weapon of a clash not between armies, but civilizations.

16 years later, we have only begun, not to fight, but to defend ourselves against a clash of civilizations.

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