Victor Davis Hanson, whose opinions I value highly, offers his weekly observation here. It makes for depressing reading. I'll pull out a few sentences from his larger perspective. His article needs to be read in full.
Ask yourself: In the fifth year since September 11, is it more likely that Islamic associations in Canada or the United States will condemn global Islamic extremism or complain about purported Islamophobia and the sins of “Zionism”?
. . . The truth is that as long as American petroleum demand, coupled with restrictions on our own energy development, helps drive the world oil price up, we are simply funding psychopaths who otherwise would have no viable economic means of support. . . when the fifth anniversary of this war approaches this September, we are no closer to energy independence than we were in 2001.
Hanson talks about Sen. Kennedy, Sen. Durbin, Michael Moore, Cindy Sheehan, and other Democrats ready to take over Washington. At some point, he says,
Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Ted Kennedy, and Howard Dean, or their epigones, will still have to persuade the American people that radical Islam means to destroy us.
That will be hard to do since they have spent the last several years pooh-poohing the seriousness of the situation now confronting the United States and the West.
My comment: The Democratic party's irresponsible rhetoric (this is George Bush's war) and the failure of Democrats to recognize or deal seriously with the threats we face, only advances a process of national suicide.