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The Islamic jihad is not a response to the war in Iraq; it is a religious war whose armies began forming in 1979 in Iran and Afghanistan and the West Bank and Gaza. Because the jihad is not about Iraq, its agendas -- which the left that never bothers itself about -- will not be satisfied by an American withdrawal from Iraq or Afghanistan, or an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank. Instead it will be incited by them. Just as Arafat and the al-Aqsa murderers brigade were incited by the weakness shown by Clinton and Barak in offering concessions to people who want it all. When your enemy is determined to destroy you, an olive branch is seen as weakness, something we should have learned once at for all at Munich, but never have.

The radical Islamist jihad is at war with the democracies of the West in Europe and the Middle East and America, and there is no way out of the war but to win it.
The bombings in London show the folly of well-meaning liberals who think that tolerance of an enemy that lives within one's country will persuade the enemy to change his mind and will produce beneficent results. The Islamic community in London produced more than one Mosque of hate preaching war against Britain. The haters were tolerated. The tolerance led to disaster.

The war in Iraq is an excuse for radicalism, not its cause; just as the war in Vietnam was an excuse for American radicals to conduct a war against America they already had in their hearts to fight. The radicals' war not only continues but has morphed into a massive effort to support the campaign of jihadists who want to kill us. An expert on suicide bombings analyzed 71 terrorist attacks between 1995 and 2004 and concluded from the pattern (in an article called, "Al-Qaeda's Smart Bombs") that the immediate military goal of the jihadists was "to compel the United States and its Western allies to withdraw combat forces from the Arabian peninsula and other Muslim countries."

This is precisely what the left is demanding. It has opened a political front behind our lines. Note: This surrender is not what the Iraqis are demanding; it is not what the people of Afghanistan are demanding; it is not what the Saudis or the Lebanese are demanding. It is what the terrorists are demanding, and it is what the American left is demanding, and the British and European left as well.

The left preaches surrender in the war against the Islamists on all fronts: retreat from Iraq; retreat from Afghanistan; retreat (without a peace) from the territories in Gaza and the West Bank. In the name of ending the violence. But even one such retreat will produce infinitely more bloodshed at home and abroad than we are facing now. Why? Because we are tolerant and the enemy is ruthless; because we are compassionate and the enemy is savage; because we are merciful and the enemy is not. America's defeat, Britain's defeat, Israel's defeat would produce slaughters to make 9/11 look tame.

For years Britain has tolerated Imams who have preached hatred of Britain right in their midst. For years Britain has tolerated Imams who have celebrated the violence that Britain's enemies promise and the violence Britain's enemies deliver. And now they have paid the price for their tolerance. Or a price. Because the war in Europe is only beginning.

The lesson of London is that tolerance can kill you.

It is time for the West to begin to set limits to the suicidal softness it considers its soul. We can no longer afford to tolerate hate directed against us, particularly hate that emanates from religious pulpits and supports murder in God's name. We can no longer tolerate hate that is directed at us because we think we are powerful and the hate can't hurt us.

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Horowitz message to London, "take their(the Islamist's) words seriously, remember London, and understand that this is no longer a game, should be heard by the rest of Europe and the U.S. as well. And if our leaders don't get it, they need to hear about from all of us!

Related: Here's an article that will at least get your attention, whether you agree with it or not. The flavor is a little Right of Center, but the message isn't all that far off - Iran and Syria are the two heads of the snake of terrorism.

So now we've got a formula for shutting down terrorism - we just halt Iran's plans to go nuclear, by force if necessary, while shutting down their Islamic war against the West; this will cause Syria to die on the vine and international terrorism will begin to whither. But of course we'll have to finish off the terrorists in Iraq and convince the Saudis to shut down their funding of terrorism and the spread of Wahabism. Gosh, how simple it all sounds!