Meanwhile, engagement in Iraq has made it harder to secure victory in Afghanistan, where the anti-terror justification for war was rock solid.
But even within the bleakest possible analysis of Mr Blair's foreign policy, it is still simply not true that the West is waging war on Islam. Just as it is not true that the CIA was really behind the 11 September attacks or any other arrant conspiratorial nonsense that enjoys widespread credence in the Middle East and beyond.
It is also a logical and moral absurdity to imply, as some critics of British policy have done, that mass murder is somehow less atrocious when it is motivated by an elaborate narrative of political grievance. If young British Muslims are alienated, that is sad and their anger should be addressed. But anyone whose alienation leads them to want to kill indiscriminately has crossed a line into psychopathic criminality.
Policy cannot be dictated by the need to placate such people. British Muslim leaders are entitled, along with everybody else, to raise questions about the conduct and consequences of Mr Blair's foreign policy. But they have a more immediate responsibility to promote the truth: that Britain is not the aggressor in a war against Islam; that no such war exists; that there is no glory in murder dressed as martyrdom and that terrorism is never excused by bogus accounts of historical victimisation.
The title should actually read: "These ludicrous lies about the West and Islam"
It's not even excused by genuine accounts of historical victimization. Once you adopt the tactic of terror, you lose, however legitimate your grievances might have been before.
At least, that's the way it would go if I ruled the world.
We should be, since Islam has been waging war on the West since before we had a Constitution. It only became official though in 1998.
Bump for later
Nuke Mecca, fix a lot of things and give those so inclined something to complain about.
mass murder is somehow less atrocious when it is motivated by an elaborate narrative of political grievance.
This is the mantra of the barbarians: their actions are justifiable since the West has historically oppressed the Palestinian people blah blah blah and stained the holy lands with their infidel presence yada yada yada. Every time this claptrap is voiced, it should immediately be stamped "Rejected." There is no moral, logical, or historical validity to the claim whatsoever. It is nothing more than an excuse, the Islamic cultural equivalent of making a defense of an offense.
If young British Muslims are alienated, that is sad and their anger should be addressed.
Yeah, the same way other vague, communal "anger" is addressed: by ignoring it. It's nothing but childish whining. There is literally NOTHING for these animals to be angry about. Not that that stops them ...
But anyone whose alienation leads them to want to kill indiscriminately has crossed a line into psychopathic criminality.
Gee, ya think? Does that mean that I'm not justified in climbing a tower with a rifle just because I got a parking ticket, or because my boss is a bureaucratic pinhead?
Policy cannot be dictated by the need to placate such people.
I would amend this to read "Policy cannot be dictated by the need to TOLERATE such people." No society need suckle its own destroyers.
British Muslim leaders are entitled, along with everybody else, to raise questions about the conduct and consequences of Mr Blair's foreign policy.
I don't think "redress of grievances" includes flying airplanes into office buildings.
But they have a more immediate responsibility to promote the truth: that Britain is not the aggressor in a war against Islam; that no such war exists; that there is no glory in murder dressed as martyrdom and that terrorism is never excused by bogus accounts of historical victimisation.
And more than that, that anything is to be gained by murdering thousands of innocent Westerners. What do they think, that one day they'll blow up enough stuff that all Western governments will say, "Okay. We give up. We've ordered all our citizens to wrap bedsheets around their heads and start screwing goats."
If there's a point to me made with all this mayhem, it's that Islam is organically incapable of living in peace. It is a "religion" that demands enemies, and if it doesn't find them, it will manufacture them at random.
This might be true of Britain, but American policy was focused on getting an intern under the Presidential desk.
I am completely and utterly disgusted by Islamic genocide in the Sudan, Nigeria, and W. Irian. I guess my grievance against Muslims could account for my rage if I decided to burn down a mosque somewhere? It wouldn't, of course. However, you cannot bring this up to the MSM because they hold Muslims to a very low standard of behavior. You cannot hoist Muslims on the same petard because the Quran teaches them that they have a divine right to commit evil against non-Muslims and that any act committed against Muslims (no matter how justified) is by their own definition an injustice that will cause them to circle the wagons even around the most despicable members of their deadly cult. So any talk of theirs about a foreign policy being the cause of terror is just more dissembling Islamic skulduggery.