http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/09/AR2007020902294.html

The situation is murky, but it’s possible that Iran is holding some high profile al-Qaeda people under house arrest and using them as bargaining chips. Iran made what probably was a serious offer to cough them up in exchange for America turning over MEK terrorists. Yet there’s considerable confusion as to “how effectively the Iranians are controlling al-Qaeda members and whether the Tehran government is aware of the extent of al-Qaeda movements through the country.” That makes it sound like the situation in Pakistan, where the government is unwilling or unable to eliminate al-Qaida.

In any event, it’s a far cry from aiding and abetting al-Qaeda in the way that the Taliban aided and abetted al-Qaeda or the way Iran aids and abets Hizbullah. Israel really faces in Iran what Bush mistakenly thought we faced in Iraq: a hostile government with WMDs sponsoring a terrorist group. But American is not in the same boat as Israel, though that could change.

A couple of days later, on an intercity bus in southern Spain, we observed a group of young Arab men looking at a newspaper article about the attacks. When they got to a particularly gruesome photo of the wreckage, they all smiled and high-fived each other. I just lost it. I stood up and started yelling at them in broken Spanish, calling them pig, dog, why don’t they try to attack me right now, etc. But apparently none of them spoke Spanish, so they just stared at me blankly.

My wife made me sit down. After a while spent trying to think of ways I could whale on these guys without going to jail, I realized I couldn’t, so I tried to calm down. We reported the incident to the police at our destination, but they acted like we were nuts.

Before we left two weeks later, opinion there was already starting to turn against us as it was obvious we weren’t just going to sit here without reacting.

And yes, I did mean that Israel is another front in the war against Islamists.

I’m not sure what she meant by this: “But the war that started before 9/11 has not ended, and Iraq is only one of its fronts. Israel is another, and six years later, the world still refuses to acknowledge that role.” I think she’s describing the war against violent Islamists, but it’s not clear.

And her statement that Iran is working with al-Qaeda to harm America “in any way possible” strikes me as simply false. There’s some evidence that Iran collaborted with al-Qaeda on the Khobar Towers attack and some hints that Iran turned a blind eye to al-Qaida members in Iran before and after 9/11, but that’s a far cry from being a major sponsor.

Six years ago today, my wife and I were sudden babysitters of several children whose parents could not get out of their Manhattan workplaces.

Six years ago today, my mother – a Kindertransportee and a survivor of the London airblitz – explained to my panicky wife that everyone has to develop “an everyday sort of courage.”

Six years ago today, my world changed. I changed. I developed a quiet anger. And I’m still angry.

chsw

It’s often been speculated that if the Left hadn’t delayed the Allied response to WW2, the Holocaust would never have happened, if on the Nazis had been contained before taking over all of Europe.

It’s fairly obvious in the light of history that 10 million people died in the aftermath of the fall of Saigon, brought about by American Liberals’ unwillingness to see what was obvious to everyone else – that the dominoe theory was correct. Even today, Democrats deny the “ethnic cleansings” and mass murder of anyone disagreeing with the Communists, or simply for the crime of being educated…

For Liberals, history began yesterday. For the rest of us, history repeats…

Robert

This was the first shot fired in the war of radical Islam vs. everybody else. It wasn’t until 9/11 (about 25 years later) that they scored a hit bad enough to convince the US population that maybe we should consider shooting back for a change.

Unfortunately, the attitude wore off real fast. Thanks to the DNC and a media that would rather see the US fall than say a single good word about a Republican, the public has returned to its classic mentality of “we’ll be fine if we surrender now.”, often accompanied by belief that 9/11 was all staged by Bush as part of a master plan to take over the world. (Amazing how a guy who is supposed to be dumber than a bag of hair can simultaneously be a tyrannical mastermind, isn’t it?)