What We're Fighting

The nation wasn't unified against the enemy by 9/11 in the same way as it was by Pearl Harbor. Many Americans are still in denial about the implacability of Islamic fundamentalism. The wishful thinkers among us believe that the enemy will "go away" if we simply stop provoking it in places like Afghanistan and Iraq. They need to think again:

Iraqi Prime Minister Targeted for Assassination
Zarqawi Purportedly Issued Death Threat in Online Audiotape

By Robert H. Reid
The Associated Press
Wednesday, June 23, 2004; 10:20 AM

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A recording purportedly made by the mastermind of bombings and beheadings in Iraq [said, in part]..."We will carry on our jihad against the Western infidel and the Arab apostate until Islamic rule is back on Earth."

UNTIL ISLAMIC RULE IS BACK ON EARTH. Do you get it now?