Victor Davis Hanson adds to what Michael Yon has reported about the Islamic extremist barbarians. A couple of days ago, Yon reported that al Qaeda served up a son for dinner to his own family, had literally been baked and prepared to be eaten. Amid all these atrocities, I think every person should bear in mind what Hanson has to say about the acts of these Muslim barbarians.
What is striking about all this savagery—whether with the filmed beheadings of Westerners in Iraq to the recent flaming Johnny Storm human torch at Glasgow, screaming epithets as he sought to engulf bystanders and ignite his canisters — is the absolute silence of the West, either distracted by Paris and i-Phones or suffering from Bush Derangement Syndrome and obsessed with Guantanamo.
It is hard to recall an enemy so savage and yet one so largely ignored by rich affluent and distracted elites as the radical jihadists, as we have to evoke everything from mythology to comic books to find analogies to their extra-human viciousness.
For a self-congratulatory culture issuing moral lectures on everything from global warming to the dangers of smoking, the silence of the West toward the primordial horror from Gaza to Anbar is, well, horrific in its own way as well…
What the terrorists/extremists are doing in the Middle East could very well spread to Europe, Asia and the Americas. Our soldiers are there right now putting a stop to this mess at the source. It’s called nipping it in the bud. America did not wait until Germany landed troops on our soil to begin our offensive (though we did wait until they had taken most of Europe), so what sense does it make for us to wait on another radicalized movement to spread across Europe before taking action?
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