The earlier posts by “Nomenklatura” and by “Cannoneer No.4″ were the ones which I think grasp the irrationality and deceptiveness of the Democrats’ and Left’s memes and counternarratives. There is the unreality in the “understanding” of the conflict that asserts that OBL is the key to it all. They missed out on the lesson of this drama, which began 1,400 years ago when a band of criminals, opportunists, sycophants, outcasts, and psychopaths gathered around a man in Yathrib (Medina) who was chased out of Mecca, who told them “Allah” said they could raid the caravans with abandon – provided he got a very large share of the booty.

The blueprint for the ideology and manner of war IS that old. And that blueprint provides more than enough substance for any jihad organization to thrive on.

I have always thought that the most important task was to destroy the organization and its networks. But we have neglected (badly)the ideological and intellectual battle. That neglect kicks a can down the road. Anyway, those who taunt that GWB did not catch or kill bin Laden either do this out of sheer stupidity or they do it out of a much more calculating intent (Nomenklatura’s point). There are plenty of Jackasses who stupidly think this is a law enforcement matter. And there are the more cunning Jackasses who know damn well it is a war and they resent not being the masters of it. I am inclined to think that the more one is ignorant of Islam the more one is susceptible to the error of thinking that this is a law enforcement issue. Thus, the concept of “state sponsors of Islamic terror” eludes them and the war in Iraq seems, to them, unnecessary and besides the point.

Bottom Line: We are experiencing TWO wars simultaneously. One is the external one thrust upon us (realistically, the renewal of an old one) from outside. The other war is a vicious internal political war.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.