The Western World Is Embroiled In A Cold Civil War

Appeasement is fear masquerading as a complex understanding of International political gamesmanship.

Mark Steyn will have none of it. Instead, he boils our reality down to its essence:

What we’re up against is not primarily defined by what’s going on in Iraq
and Afghanistan. Those are still essentially military campaigns and we’re good
at those. ... it might be truer to say that this is
a Cold Civil War – by which I mean a war within the west.

The real war is a domestic war: the key terrain
is not the Sunni Triangle but every major city within the western world.
...

Even if there were no battles in Iraq and Afghanistan, even if
no one was flying planes into tall buildings in New York, even if no one were
blowing up trains and buses and nightclubs in Madrid and London and Bali, even
without all that, we would still be in danger of losing this thing – without a
shot being fired.