Maybe you need to be Jewish

Michael Barone notes the refusal of the antiwar left to face the fact that terrorism is a serious threat. I'm not sure that they hate us so much for "our way of life , our freedoms and our tolerance" as for the fact that our culture has progressed over the past 500 years while theirs has stagnate. It's an issue of Arab honor, which has more to do with being Arab than being Muslim, but has been imprinted on Islam by radical Arab imams like those in the Muslim Brotherhood and spread with the financial aid of the Saudis. Their honor and that of Islam can only be vindicated by the renewal of the caliphate and worldwide jihad.

Whatever the source, these people find their manhood and glory in killing infidels and martyrdom, as if aggression was the same thing as defense. But we have our own version of people living in the past who are also eager to seize government power, but they're a unequipped to deal with the terrorists as the terrorists are ingenious at thinking of ways to murder us. They are so far gone as to believe that the plot just foiled by the British security officials was timed to coincide with Ned Lamont's victory.

Barone notes, as many have lately, the similarity to the appeasement of Adolf Hitler by Neville Chamberlain. All of this has become trite, but it needs to be repeated by those who believe it, because our media are on largely part of the problem. Barone closes with this:

Joseph Lieberman is being criticized for saying, "I'm worried that too many people, both in politics and out, don't appreciate the seriousness of the threat to American security and the evil of the enemy that faces us -- more evil, or as evil, as Nazism and probably more dangerous than the Soviet communists we fought during the long Cold War. We cannot deceive ourselves that we live in safety today and the war is over, and it's why we have to stay strong and vigilant."

Lieberman, as an observant Jew, remembers the lessons of appeasement and recognizes the implacability of our enemy from their hatred of Israel and of all Jews. The odd thing is that so many of his fellow Jews support those who are trying to replace him in the Senate, and I don't mean Mr. Schlesinger.