There are thinkers today thinking the unthinkable: that the West may lose the war on terror. That includes the celebrated historian Bernard Lewis. Here's a report of what he said recently:
The British-born professor of Near Eastern studies at Princeton said Monday that he was "more optimistic about the future of our struggle" in the early 1940s — when the French had capitulated to the Germans, when Stalin was Hitler's ally, and when America was still neutral — than he is today.
"Hitler would have won under these conditions," Mr. Lewis said, citing America's inability to clearly define the war on terror and exactly who its enemy is. . .
During the darkest days of the fight against Nazism, Mr. Lewis said, he "had no doubt that in the end we would triumph." He does not "have that certitude now," he said. (HT: National Review Online)
Then there is David Selbourne's book The Losing Battle With Islam and his sobering article in today's Times of London titled, "Can the West Defeat the Islamist Threat? He offers 10 reasons why, if things don't change, the West will be defeated. Sobering stuff, indeed. These men throw a bucket of cold water on our complacency. Better they warn us now than later. (HT:Frontpagemag)