One of the most fascinating questions -- one worthy of a book -- must be why Osama Bin Laden chose to order his suicide airplanes into Manhattan rather than say, Beijing or Moscow. Both these nations have been campaigning against Muslims for centuries. And the answer, I suspect, lies in the "excited commands and shouts of glee form the Chinese on the soundtrack". Or the veritable rain of shells that fell on Grozny in the recent past or the vicious campaign that still rages through Chechnya today. Maybe Bin Laden attacked America because he knew how it would fight. In a mode where even prisoners in Guantanamo Bay could insist upon their Korans being handled with white gloves, while a large section of America's own media would condemn this treatment as too harsh. There are times when I am tempted to think that the Western Left is radical Islam's Ring of Power. If a snapping point is reached, even the Left may not forever restrain the West. |
Remember that if Hitler hadn't double crossed Stalin invaded the USSR, it's doubtful that the American Left of the time would have supported the American war effort. Plus ca change...
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