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And there was once a state called the Caliphate, whose remnant bits and pieces are at war with the rest of the human race from Nigeria all the way to the Phillipines.

"Al-Qaeda" is only a useful label if you understand that it is not the actions of a few dozen. It is the id of the old Caliphate, expressed whenever there is another large-scale terrorist attack against Americans and a billion Moslems cheer and dance in the streets and burn American flags. If this is not a clear and concise declaration of war, what is it? If it is not casus belli when Arab and Moslem governmental intelligence agencies from Libya to Syria to Iran to the former Iraq to Pakistan to Saudi Arabia spy on the US and give intelligence, money and arms to them, whether they are calling themselves "Al-Qaeda" or "Hezbollah" or "Taliban" or "The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine" or "Hamas" or "Al-Fatah" or "Al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigade," what is it?

>>108
It is time for the West to stop worrying about what the deathcultists will do. It is time for the deathcultists to begin worrying about what the West will do.

Al-Qaeda tried to destroy the Twin Towers in NYC in 1993 and again, after eight years of planning, in 2001. This despite Clinton's attempts to be all things to all people around the world.

If there is a nest of hornets, you do not worry about why they are so hostile, nor live in fear of provoking them, nor lie awake at night consumed with guilt and blaming yourself for their hatred of you. You kill every one you see and burn the nest wherever you find it. You exterminate them. And better to do it now than in our children's time.

People from Nigeria to Darfur to Israel to India to Thailand to the Phillipines are suffering right now because of our vacillation and lack of resolve. It is time to end this.