Jihad In Britain
The Opinion Journal takes a look at the events in Britain over the past few days. Hopefully, Gordon Brown is as quick a study as they believe he is on this subject.
Most Britons understand that terrorists wage war on them and their freedoms–and are not, per the fashionable left, voicing opposition to British policy in their own way. This weekend's plotters intended to kill partygoers at popular nightclubs in London's West End and school children departing Glasgow for summer holiday. These cities are thriving, cosmopolitan, tolerant and open–which is a main reason the Islamists want to bomb them.
On Thursday, his first full day in office, the Prime Minister sought to distance himself from just-retired Tony Blair's unpopular commitment to the "global war on terror" by unveiling a cabinet with prominent Blair critics. But Mr. Brown appears to be a quick study. Yesterday, in an interview with the BBC, he was nothing if not resolute: "We will not yield, we will not be intimidated, and we will not allow anyone to undermine our British way of life." Welcome to the fight.
I think that most people in the West understand that war is being waged on their way of life. It is that fashionable, leftwing, elitist view (like Michael Moore calling the terrorists "Minutemen") that are causing a lot of the problems right now. And, unfortunately, are making the violent tactics of the islamists worse. By failing to hold them accountable to the same standards the West is held to, there is no check on them at all. They get free publicity and plenty of Western apologists ready, willing and eager to blame the West for everything. If the media were howling with outrage over the terror attacks instead of quoting "spokesmen" for the terror groups as straight fact, maybe the terrorists would dial it back. That is what one study concluded at any rate.
War, World news | Gaius Monday, 2 July , 2007
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Wake up America — Monday, 2 July , 2007 @ 1:23 pm
By jpe, Monday, 2 July , 2007 @ 2:57 pm
Funny, I would have thought the terrorists were causing the problems. Thanks for the tip.
Pfft.