Your Conservative Movement
Invading brown hordes taking our women and converting us to Islam. Isn't that it in a nutshell? The greatest threat faced by Western Civilization? Isn't that what animates psychopaths like this guy and the right-wingers who agree with him? And doesn't the severity of the threat necessitate, as Bush's "war czar" has suggested, that we re-impose the draft?
This is all because a "war on terror" was declared. And then, despite Bush's early assurance that we were not at war with Islam, the administration did nothing to counter the right wing's natural decline into bigotry, racism and xenophobia. The "clash of civilizations" thesis was not challenged. The suggestion of internment was not challenged. The notion that Iran was/is at the center of a global "Islamofascist" totalitarian movement has not been challenged. So is it any wonder that for these people, the "war on terror" is just code for "the crusades?"
This is why some Philadelphia columnist unknown outside of his home domain is now the toast of the conservative media. He is so firm in his conviction that only another catastrophe--and it isn't even clear that he would call it one--will "wake up" Americans to the fact that we really are in World War IV. Just another 3000 murdered American civilians ought to do it. Apparently the 3000+ dead American soldiers in Iraq weren't an adequate sacrifice.