[From article]
As two of mankind’s great religions prepared to celebrate Easter and Passover, terrifying events on a single day involving a third religion revealed the perilous state of the world, circa 2015.
It was early last Thursday in Kenya when Islamists belonging to an al Qaeda franchise stormed a college, slaughtering nearly 150 Christian students. Survivors said hostages who could recite the Shahada, the Islamic creed, were freed unharmed while all others were murdered.
That same day, two Muslim women in Queens were arrested on charges of plotting to detonate a bomb in New York. They are said to be supporters of the Islamic State, with one woman allegedly telling an undercover FBI agent: “It’s war, it’s f- -king war.”
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The war is on, it’s a world war, and because her side is more determined to win, nobody is safe.
Obama’s goal of bringing Iran in from the cold is, like much of his presidency, a vision divorced from reality. His hollow rhetoric echoes the appeasers who sought to stop Hitler in 1939 by giving him what he wanted.
This latter-day Chamberlain will be no more successful. Armed, expansionist ideologies must be stopped because they cannot be accommodated.
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The paths to victory in both World War II and the Cold War were hardly smooth, but the West was blessed with leaders whose will was as mighty as our war machines.
They had the wisdom and compassion to make the world safe for democracy, which eventually took root around the globe. Scores of millions of people were liberated and a relative golden age of peace and prosperity marked the seven decades since, especially the last 25 years.
That era is over. It officially ended on 9/11, when war came to America, just as Pearl Harbor ended the fiction that fascism was somebody else’s problem.
http://nypost.com/2015/04/05/its-war-out-there-obama/
It’s war out there, Obama
By Michael Goodwin
New York Post
April 5, 2015 | 12:14am
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