Michael Kelly Mort Kondracke Ch.
War is bustin' out all over.
The threat of the past was communism. The threat of the present and immediate future is radical, fundamentalist, murderous Islam. Most Muslims, of course, are not radical, but, as in other trouble spots where religion is part of the political mix, it doesn't take many to destabilize a nation. Islamic radicals perceive the West, and particularly the United States, as militarily strong but morally weak. They correctly diagnose the shallowness of our lives and our preoccupation with material things.