For thirteen years, we have shied away from directly confronting the ideology, preferring to disrupt only its symptoms - bomb plots, and airline attacks. And in that thirteen years the ideology has metastasized within the cocoon of western denial - so that the men barely out of short trousers on 9/11 now flock to fight for an organization that Obama assures us "has no place in the 21st century". If the evasive pap spouted by the President the other day is the best the west can do, then we will lose. Steyn is correct. After almost 1400 years of essentially ignoring the threat of Islam, the West must finally address it head on.
It is, after all, a question of "Them or Us".
13 years???? I remember a lot from my teen years. Beirut, no response, hijackings, the Olympics, etc.