VDH REMINDS BUSH: IT'S US OR THEM

RTWT. Excerpt:

Three years ago no one was talking about profiling at airports. Now the British are exploring how best to do it. Indeed, one of the stranger developments in recent memory is now taking place the world over: Young, Middle-Eastern, Muslim men are eyed and studied by passengers at every airport — even as governments still lecture about the evils of the very profiling that their own millions are doing daily. Muslims can thank al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, and an entire culture that won’t condemn terrorism for such ostracism, which only increases with each suicide bomber, human shield, hijacking, kidnapping, and macabre reference to genocide and Jew-killing.

In an amorphous war of self-induced Western restraint, like the present one, truth and moral clarity are as important as military force. This past month, the world of the fascist jihadist and those who tolerate him was once again on display for civilization to fathom. Even the most timid and prone to appeasement in the West are beginning to see that it is becoming a question of “the Islamists or us.”

Bush said this in 2001 -

"Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists. From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime."

The problem is that several of Bush's actions since 2004 - (like letting Moki al Sadr off the hook in 2004 and Assad off the hook this year) - and especially the recent cease-fire, make it seem like he has wussed out.

The Hizballah War and the foiled German and foiled British terrorist attacks should make it clear to everyone that what we really need is an even more robust and ruthless counter-attack, and not more talk.

MY MESSAGE TO BUSH: If we wanted to wuss out then we would have elected Kerry!