A Tangled Web

The War on Terror



Have a look at this excellent article by Victor Davis Hanson in the National Review. Whilst latently some sovereign states deride the efforts of the USA and its allies in tacking the scourge of Islamic terror, there remains considerable subliminal support for their eventual success.



Why? Because at the heart of every sovereign state is an instinct of survival. For democratic polities it is a survival based not only on internal stability (a contradiction in terms if infiltrated by Islamic insurgents), but on a structured international order with reasonable guarantees of global security in the long-term. This is why I fumed over the protests against the 'War on Terror'(the situation in Iraq is an essential and integral part of the war). It hasn't yet occurred to pacifist cowards that the global world order was so badly shaken by the rise of Islamic terrorism in general, and Al Queda in particular, that the West's crusade to eliminate them was an essential part of restructuring and rebuilding a comparable global order. It could no longer be obtained, say, using the theories fashioned to bring about an end to the Cold War.



Hanson is entirely correct when he says: 'we are in a see-saw race with the terrorists.' It is a battle for the very future of global hegemony; an hegemony promising peace and security under the auspices of American protection, or an hegemony geared to suit the bloodthirsty aspirations of men who seek to convert the world to, ultimately, nothing more than a comprehensive Islamic state.