Belmont Club again

Checked the Belmont Club a few minutes ago and found to my delight that Wretchard had a new short but excellent essay up. This one is regarding the election in Spain and the new Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's vow to fight terrorism. bq. The Shield Without the Sword Spain's new Socialist prime minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, has vowed to fight terrorism in all its forms. "My immediate priority will be to fight all forms of terrorism", he said yesterday. But he should be careful not to fight it so effectively as to invite Al Qaeda's retaliation. If Zapatero seriously carries out his program to discommode Osama Bin Laden, the Shiek of Jihad might strike back, creating that which was to be avoided in the first place. Hence the phrase "fight all forms of terrorism" really means to 'fight the lion short of waking him', a task best accomplished with rubber-tipped children's bows and arrows and water pistols. Very interesting comment here -- Zapatero needs to appear strong but if he is too strong, the Islamofascists will use another strike to discredit him and to try to cow the government. Someone else said that the whole appeasement and capitulation may be good in that it will bring things to a head quickly in Europe and they will shake themselves out of whatever funk they are in now and actually deal with the problem at hand. The problem is not one person, it is an entire subculture that has a focused agenda, destroy the west. They have no fear of death and they have no sense of self-blame or examination -- they see the problems of their current lifestyle and they blame the west for them, not themselves. This is a sick, a sadly sick culture and it needs to be stopped. Now. In all of it's forms... It used to be a great culture - time to be great again instead of sick and reviled.