The War Against The War

Andy McCarthy correctly identifies the enemy today on NRO.

For the second time in seven months, the Times has exposed classified information about a program aimed at protecting the American people against a repeat of the September 11 attacks. On this occasion, it has company in the effort: The Los Angeles Times runs a similar, sensational story. Together, the newspapers disclose the fact that the United States has covertly developed a capability to monitor the nerve center of the international financial network in order to track the movement of funds between terrorists and their facilitators.

Has the treasonous MSM gone too far? By any rational measure, yes. Long ago. But will this finally create a backlash against today’s Fifth Column? Michelle Malkin certainly hopes so, and if the reactions of her readers are an indication the answer could be yes.

Don’t miss Michael Ledeen’s take on it, and Tony Snow telling Hellen Thomas to shut up either.

Two views of death

VDH sums it up nicely, as usual.

For Westerners, death ruins the precious good life; for the topsy-turvy Islamists, death salvages the bad life.

Then he asks some good questions. As usual.

How do you arrange a marriage, insist on a beheading for adultery, conduct a proper honor killing of your daughter, or calmly call Jews “pigs and apes” when the wider Westernizing world broadcast into your living room, car, and workplace thinks you are some groveling zombie? Can an Airbus or Compaq be constructed according to the principles of Sharia? How can you demand amoxicillin as your birthright, but hate the system of free thinking and rationalism that created it? Does the Islamist despise equally Chinese internet pornography; does he issue fatwas against South Korean video games; does he ostracize Latin American evangelical Protestants, or burn down Bollywood? In the short-term maybe; in the long-term it is not so easy.