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All that is quite interesting.

I am tiring of hearing about "The West" all the time, though. Although I understand the concept "misery loves company," it is an overstatement to say the Islamists are at war with "The West." It is clear that they are targeting Americans wherever they may be and Jews wherever they may be, in Israel or elsewhere. They may get around to all those other countries in Europe someday, but I would imagine it will be many years in the future.

The Europeans may in the meantime arrive at some sort of accommodation/appeasement with the Islamists, especially if the unthinkable occurred (U.S. basically destroyed in a decades-long war of attrition).

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You seem to forget the terror attacks in Russia, Italy, and Germany. Not all of the victims were US citizens. We always want to remember that Osama and his ilk want all non Muslims off their planet.