Seeing America as religiously weak and morally challenged, the
islamofascists are determined to strike us where we live. The Clinton
administration failed to see this war coming, but Democrats do not regard
its minimal response to terrorist attacks as incompetence or weakness.
Condemnation is reserved exclusively for President Bush, who they say
misjudged the war on terror by attacking Iraq. But the war was coming and
would have come with or without the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. If the
United States and the rest of the coalition does not defeat the insurgents
in Iraq, that country will become a terror state and the price we will pay
when future attacks against America are launched from an islamofascist Iraq,
allied with Iran, will make 9/11 pale in comparison.
At a symposium last spring on "Islam and the West," which was sponsored by
The World Affairs Council of Philadelphia, Walter Russell Mead of the
Council on Foreign Relations noted, "The human species is facing a huge
historical, cultural problem. Š For reasons that have very little to do with
the U.S., we need to face the fact that we'll be living with this for a very
long time." Mead said it isn't just an Arab problem, but an Islamic world
problem, which transcends borders and regions. "If you don't understand
this, you're deluding yourself," he said.
Do Democrats and their media allies understand this or are they deluding
themselves? What would they do differently from the Bush administration in
credibly fighting this plague that transcends borders, regions and even
political parties? Should Democrats win a congressional majority in the fall
election, they must do more than try to frustrate the president, hoping to
win the White House in 2008. The war won't wait for them to prove their
competence, or incompetence.