Orgy of Guilt

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Jewish World Review

Mona Charen
July 8, 2016

he Islamic State, you have to acknowledge, is on quite a roll. Over the July 4 weekend, the FBI arrested a northern Virginia neighbor of mine, * Mohamed Bailor Jalloh. He was apparently plotting a Fort Hood style attack and told an FBI informant: "I just want to live a good Muslim life and die as a Shaheed (martyr)."

Jalloh was thwarted, but around the globe, fellow admirers or members of ISIS have been inflicting chaos and death at an accelerating rate. Just in the past 24 months, ISIS-inspired killers have struck the Brussels airport, a Tunisian beach resort, the Istanbul airport, a Paris satirical magazine and a kosher market, a Christmas party in a San Bernardino office, a Russian plane flying over the Sinai, a restaurant catering to westerners in Bangladesh, Paris cafes and a concert venue, a nursing home in Yemen founded by Mother Teresa, and a gay nightclub in Orlando — to name but a small fraction of the hundreds of attacks. The list doesn't count the horrific beheadings, sex slavery, forced labor, crucifixions and other murders ISIS has committed in territory it controls in Iraq and Syria.

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You might suppose that in the mighty nations of the West, debate would be ongoing about how to destroy ISIS and rescue the desperate people — one thinks particularly of the religious minorities like the Yazidis — who've come under its control. You'd even suppose that people who style themselves human rights crusaders on the left would be condemning our inaction as a form of racism or xenophobia, since the overwhelming majority of ISIS' victims are Muslim and/or dark skinned.

But no. In our counsels, the great issue we're relitigating is whether Tony Blair should be tried for war crimes at the International Criminal Court and just how responsible George W. Bush was for all of the mayhem in the world. In the wake of a just-released prolix exercise in second-guessing by Sir John Chilcot, a sneering BBC host interviewed Blair and demanded to know whether "even now" he had the nerve to pray about his actions. (Blair, unlike most BBC types, is religious.)

Progressives, like those who run the BBC and the Democratic Party here, have concocted an imagined history of the past quarter century in which everything was fine until George W. Bush lied us into war in Iraq and opened the prison in Guantanamo.................(Snip)

 

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* Mohamed Jalloh: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

 

Let me just state two obvious points

1. The invasion and liberation of Iraq from one of the most brutal dictators in modern times was a noble act, and neither America or George W Bush have one (expletive expletive expletive deleted) thing to apologize for or to be ashamed of

2. We were 80% of the way to putting Iraq in the Win column when Obama pulled us out. Thank soooo much the MSM/Democratic Party/Progressive Movement/Libertarians/Paleo-Cons. You have the blood of 10's of 1,000's of people on your hands.

 

 

/rant #497,129