Geert Wilders Down Under

I'm not sure it's four-minutes before midnight, and I place a great deal of the blame on Western governments themselves. You can't blame Muslims for our government's decision to term what happened at Fort Hood "workplace violence." It was Bush who started it all off claiming that Bin Laden had "hijacked" Islam. And the people who will ultimately pay the heaviest price for our dissimulation won't be Westerners, they'll be Muslims. Our policies make some of them think that they, literally, can get away with murder. We ought not to be surprised that they then murder. But at some point, the West will wake up and when it does it will over-react. We made excuses for Japanese behavior for a decade. We termed unrestricted submarine warfare a war crime for three decades. Then a few hours after Pearl Harbor we adopted it as national policy. A few months later we started rounding up Japanese civilians.