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August 2, 2007

Blankley: 'Radical Islam Warrants More Government Intrusion'

Topics: War on Terror

"It does no good for us to be dead and theoretically free," he said. "I'd rather be alive and fight for our freedom. . . For the duration of the danger, I am in favor of more intrusion into our civil liberties as we had during World War II."

Although there are politicians in Washington that think the global war against Islamic extremism is nothing more than a criminal justice issue, the more wide awake among us realize that we are truly in a world war for the survival of Western civilization.

Sooner or later those politicians and their far-left supporters should realize, as Tony Blankley suggests, "It does no good for us to be dead and theoretically free."

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That's what the American strategist Eliot Cohen argues and the term is apt. It captures two points: that the cold war was in fact World War III and that the war on terror is as global, as varied, and as important as prior world wars.

Militant Islam distinguishes itself from any other contemporary political movement in the magnitude of its ambitions, seeking not just to influence the adherents of one religion or control one region. Rather, it aspires to unlimited and universal power. Only Islamists have the temerity to challenge the liberal world order in a cosmic battle over the future course of the human experience. This translates into a worldwide battlefield.

Posted by Richard at August 2, 2007 1:30 PM

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