Point of No Return?

This compliments yesterdays (below) post.

Thomas Sowell at Real Clear Politics writes that "we are fast approaching a point of no return"
against the radicals in Islam in the article Point of No Return?


Excerpts:

Humiliation and hate go together. Why humiliation? Because a once-proud, dynamic culture in the forefront of world civilizations, and still carrying a message of their own superiority to "infidels" today, is painfully visible to the whole world as a poverty-stricken and backward region, lagging far behind in virtually every field of human endeavor.

There is no way that they can catch up in a hundred years, even if the rest of the world stands still. And they are not going to wait a hundred years to vent their resentments and frustrations at the humiliating position in which they find themselves.

Israel's very existence as a modern, prosperous western nation in their midst is a daily slap across the face. Nothing is easier for demagogues than to blame Israel, the United States, or western civilization in general for their own lagging position.

Hitler was able to rouse similar resentments and fanaticism in Germany under conditions not nearly as dire as those in most Middle East countries today. The proof of similar demagogic success in the Middle East is all around.

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These are the kinds of people we are talking about getting nuclear weapons. And what of ourselves?

We, the western world, has to date shown no understanding of this and certainly no will to confront this threat.

Europe has been infliltrated and nearly taken over by Islam. They have already capitulated and have chosen to the path of eternal appeasment. Much of Asia is either fighting against Islamic radicals or has been co-opted. Wars are raging in Africa, more like Islamic ethnic cleansing really. The US and Israel, with some assistance from countries like Australia, are the only two countries who have been willing to confront this problem. Half of the US is ready to give up the fight already as too hard and Israel is branded as an outlaw nation by most of the world for defending herself.

One of these days people are going to wake up and realize that we can't and shouldn't negotiate with these people. We need to take them at their word when they say they mean to kill us. I'm afraid it will take at least one more major tragedy for the west to finally understand the stakes.