It’s Still World War IV
19th November 2015
It is unpleasant to explain to our children not only that we are at war, but that they will be, too. At a time when adult behavior is in short supply on our college campuses, however, it is particularly important to deliver some unpleasant truths to the kids, among them that our real-life enemies—who really do want to kill us and destroy our civilization—do not come straight from the pages of their storybooks. Western leaders have managed to avoid both truths for 14 years. And counting.
Actually, we’ve been at war with Islam (or, more accurately, they’ve been at war with us) since they boiled out of the Hijaz 1400 years ago. People have just been lulled into complacency by the fact that things have been quite for a century or two.
But now They’re Back and They’re Bad.