What planet?

I am hoping, with the help of coffee and Advil, to be able to blog a little something this morning before being forced back to bed by this very pushy virus, but what to choose, what to choose?

I'm grateful that Rick is blogging the anniversary of the Gaza convoy murders; I just can't do it justice today.

Israel Matzav has the fragile situation of the Jewish state covered.

Atlas and Hawkins are on John Bolton's new book (Bolton: "I hope it gives people a sense of what actually happens at the State Department, in Washington, at the UN -- so that they ask, 'How could we have possibly gotten to this point or that point,' that this will be a way of explaining it.")

Gore is toast, given yesterday's WSJ editorial that (brilliantly) doesn't even mention him.

So what of any import is left? Our do-nothing Congress? Too much for a sick blogger to even consider. The election? Too far off. How about some sheer stupidity from another planet? That's easy and immediate. See for example The Times Online:

The Muslim world .... is a less ordered society and more capable of perpetrating, or at least excusing, outrages against western targets. But these outrages are of frustration rather than conquest. While they can kill people and destroy property, they do not “threaten the West”, let alone undermine western values. If any Muslim state were rash enough to declare a war of aggression against Europe or America, of which there is no sign, it would be beaten.

There is no Saladin or Tamerlane riding out of the desert to subject the West to a new caliphate. There is rather a job for the police, local and international, one at which they seem reasonably competent. America and Britain, for example, have each seen just one successful attack by Muslim terrorists in the past decade. While other attacks have been forestalled, we would be mad to see them as constituting a war of civilisations and religions.

It's all our own fault, you see.

The belligerence and ineptitude of western policy over the past decade has turned nobodies into heroes of the Muslim world. The most incompetent period of western diplomacy since the 1930s has left the West hated and cities everywhere at the mercy of any Muslim misfit with a sack of explosive.

"Cities everywhere [are] at the mercy of any Muslim misfit with a sack of explosives," yet there is no "war of civilisations and religions," no conquest to achieve a global caliphate. I know some terrorists who would disagree.

The writer chooses to "believe in the robustness of the democracies created in the West over the past half-century." Bully for him. That must be a very pleasant planet on which to live.

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