The Cold War was a world war. It lasted for decades and millions were killed (when communists stifled dissidents, alone).
Phsyical battles were fought (in Korea, Vietnam, and elsewhere) and near nuclear exchanges occurred several times (NOT because of Reagan, and some that we are only now learning about, the Cuban Missile Crisis was not the only near flashpoint).
There were those on the left who said that we needed to learn to co-exist with the Soviet Union, and there were some (like Jane Fonda) who preached to us that we should all learn to enjoy communism. The multiculturalists are dead set against the Western World as it stood. The left embraces horrible ideas at their own peril.
I would not look to Europe for the answer. Only a few nations got it right in WWII and the whole world almost suffered then too.
This is another Crusades. Does not meant that it needs to be fought as long but Islamofascism has no part in the modern world anymore than the political/genetic philosophy of Nazism.
Islam itself can only be permitted to exist in this world if its followers can be made to accept the FACT that all people are permitted to live in this world, that we are ALL equal (not 3 classes of people under LAW, muslims, Christians/Jew, and "everybody else"). Muslims claim that the Islamofascists are "not real muslims". Fine, then stand resolutely with us in RIDDING THE WORLD of such murderous scum. If muslims are remaining quiet against such outlaw mosques and clerics out of fear, then they have already surrendered to the Islamofascists and in my mind that makes it legitimate to throw out the baby with the bath water. What if the "baby" is a crocodile? You want that chewing your hand off?
Extremely well stated, weegee. The particular point that I quoted above should be shouted from every rooftop.