[Man of the Right]

Fallaci is a member of the Chris Hitchens neo-conservative-but-doesn't-realize-it group, but is more insistent because she's dying. She's a prophet. Always a very keen intellect, now she has her head screwed on straight. Nobody in government circles is yet willing to say the obvious: the purpose of Cold War II is to smash the theocratic power of Islam. We're at a real disadvantage because we can't identify our enemey. Imagine the disadvantage of not being able to say the Commies were the bad guys in '48 or the Nazis in '40, because it wasn't PC. We have to pretend we oppose bin Laden because we don't like his wardrobe, or something.

[MHGinTN]

Bears repeating again and again ... the purpose of Cold War II is to smash the theocratic power of Islam ... except, this isn't and won't be a 'cold war'. The theocratic 'ism' of Islam (totalitarian actually) sought with 9/11 to bring about a world conflict on their terms, with chaos and mayhem and slaughter such as visits Israel and the Palestinians, Hindus and Moslems, Hutus and their victims ... but we Americans aren't cut from the same 'burqas'. We have at our core an entirely different set of foundational principles. Many of Moslem faith have realized it: we will fight and kill and die if it comes to that, to retain those founding principles, even for the Moslems among us ... as long as those Moslems stand with us. We value honor over living under tyranny, for we are born free and that cannot be taken from us easily. If we are enslaved, we enslave ourselves. Someone else cannot do it. Perhaps that is one of the many differences in Americans and Europeans: submitting to tyranny to remain alive is not living, to US. No, it isn't to be a cold war, for our free blood now runs hot. Islamism shed our blood, now our blood is hot. Now they will bleed, these deluded totalitarians.