I think that when we really look at it objectively, that western man identified totalitarianism as the enemy several hundred years ago. For most of that time, what the world has seen is people rising up against the totalitarianism in their own government (the American Revolution, etc.), but in the mid-20th century we embarked upon a crusade to wipe out totalitarianism throughout the world. Islam is that last real totalitarian threat in the world, of course there are others but they don't want to dominate the world.
The only real problem we are facing now is the deliberate unwillingness to identify Islam itself as the enemy. We had no problem identifying the Japanese or the Germans as the enemy in WWII, but we won't do it now. It is this political correctness that is hindering us in this crusade.
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