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Actually, this is a good thing. The Taliban, North Korea, and now these murderous clowns all deny involvement. And, oddly enough, for once none of them are (probably) blatantly lying.

And this means something. It means that vicious, terrorist, and evil organizations are half scared to death by the US when it exerts its wrath.

Credit here to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, and their War on Terror, and in particular to the Pentagon, CIA, SOCOM, the NSA, FBI, and all the assembled other agencies, Americans and allies.

Because of 9-11, the US has killed some 100,000 Iraqis and 100,000 or so other Muslims. The “best and brightest” of Sunni Muslim terrorism in much of the world.

We wiped out the fourth largest army in the world, and today we don’t even wait for them to come to us, but our robots silently visit them at night, leaving smoking craters in their wake.

There is no place to hide. And importantly, they know it.

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Yet the media commentary, even if it grudgingly mentions these things, internalizes none of them. “How shocking it is,” we’ve repeatedly heard, “that the brothers Tsarnaev want to mass-murder Americans. After all, they’re Chechen Muslims, and the Chechens’ beef is with the Russians, not us.”

Good grief. It is the Uighurs all over again. You’ll recall the Uighurs — they were a group of Turkic-speaking jihadists from the Xinjiang region of China, detained at Guantanamo Bay because they trained in Afghanistan with an al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist organization (the East Turkistan Islamic Movement). At least some of them fought against American forces. Nevertheless, we released them. Stroking its bloated chin, our government rationalized that they could not be enemy combatants because they weren’t our enemies — their beef was really with China, right? After all, Islam is a Religion of Peace and we’re very nice people, so why should we assume they might have a problem with us?

We are in a war driven by ideology. “Violent extremism,” which is the label the government and the commentariat prefer to put on our enemies, is not an ideology — it is the brutality that radical ideologies yield. Our enemies’ ideology is Islamic supremacism. To challenge and defeat an ideological movement, you have to understand and confront their vision of the world. Imposing your own assumptions and biases will not do. Islamic supremacists do not see a world of Westphalian nation-states. They do not distinguish between Russia and America the way they distinguish between Muslims and non-Muslims. Their ideology frames matters as Dar al-Islam versus Dar al-Harb: the realm of Islam in a fight to the death against the realm of war — which is everyone and everyplace else.

The fact that you think this is nuts, or that I’m nuts for saying it out loud, has nothing to do with whether they believe it. They do — and they don’t care, even a little, what you think. You do not defeat an ideology by hoping it will change or disappear.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/346145/jihad-will-not-be-wished-away