Tuesday, July 26, 2005

Fight On

Fire of Liberty
Janet Daley had a wonderful piece in The Sunday Times which notes that the Global War on Terror might have its up or downs on behalf of the West but in the end run the West must kill this evil dead in its tracks. Just see for yourself:
The killing of this man is a small victory for Islamic terrorism which, like all movements that attempt to undermine societies from within, has always hoped to provoke the authorities into what could be described as persecution. (Old-fashioned communist agitation had a similar logic: cause the police to display the true “repressive nature of the capitalist state” and you will win converts.) It has thrown everything — including the lives of its own young — into the battle for the minds of the Muslim population who must be made to believe that their own country is the enemy. And it found the perfect strategy with which to do it. Not just mass murder, but self-destructive nihilism. How do you fight an enemy who is not only prepared to sacrifice his own life, but who positively wants to die? One who explicitly begs you for the opportunity to destroy himself? This is a small victory for a hatred that goes beyond politics, or nationalism, or tribal grievance, or any of the quasi-rational things that are subject to negotiation and reasonable argument. There is no debate to be had here. We are in the territory of outright madness. Those who pretend that there could be some accommodation with the aims of this movement — who see it as a new power balance in the world that must be addressed in foreign policy terms — are criminally irresponsible. There is nothing short of the extinction of democratic, secular society that would appease this enemy.
Bravo, Bravo, Bravo!!! Couldn't have said better.

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