Tuesday, September 25, 2012

The Wrong Question

This RealClearWorld article asks the question "Is the U.S. at war with Islam?" It then wanders off into the fever swamps of Boykinism.

The article asks the wrong question. The correct question is whether or not some significant portion of Islam considers itself to be at war with us? The evidence suggests the answer is yes.

The second question is whether that "warlike portion of Islam" is small enough that we can afford to ignore it? Obviously, many in our government would like to ignore it as much as possible, to marginalize it.