It's A War

'Warmongers' have a point: It's a war

By Mark Steyn - June 11, 2006 - Chicago Sun-Times

Five years after 9/11, some strategists say we can't win this thing "militarily," which is true in the sense that you can't send the Third Infantry Division to Brampton, Ontario. But nor is it something we can win through "law enforcement" -- by letting the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the FBI and MI5 and every gendarmerie on the planet deal with every little plot on the map as a self-contained criminal investigation. We need to throttle the ideology and roll up the networks. These fellows barely qualify as "fifth columnists": Their shingles hang on Main Street. And, even though the number of Ontarians prepared actively to participate in the beheading of the prime minister is undoubtedly minimal, the informal support of the jihad's aims by many Western Muslims and the quiescence of too many of the remainder and the ethnic squeamishness of the modern multicultural state provide a big comfort zone.

I love the reference by Steyn to "this thing". That is the term used by so many democrats today. The Title of his article mocks the same problem. We are at war. There are still a huge number of people in this country, in fact I have some liberal friends right here in the Inner Banks, who do not, can not and will not accept that we are at war. Before it is over we may well see nuclear bombs going off in our American cities. Their casual dismissal of the possibility shows more their willingness to live in fantasy land than any serious assessment of the state of the world today.

I repeat, as does Steyn, "It's a war!"