Here is a warning to Islamofascist terrorists from Jacques Dhervillez...

I suspect that you have found recent events in Lebanon rather disconcerting. One of your leaders, Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Hezb'allah, is quoted as saying:

"We did not think, even one percent, that the capture would lead to a war at this time and of this magnitude. You ask me, if I had known on July 11 ... that the operation would lead to such a war, would I do it? I say no, absolutely not, for humanitarian, moral, social, security, military and political reasons. Neither I, Hezb'allah, prisoners in Israeli jails nor the families of the prisoners would accept it."

Your traditional strategy, of using terrorist tactics while counting on your enemies to adhere to the rules of diplomacy and formal warfare, doesn't seem to be working any more. What you have really done, by past decades of terrorism, is open a Pandora's Box of horrors that may ultimately harm you and your people more than anyone else. This toughening of the tactics of Western powers is merely an example of Magruder's Law that:

"Combat inevitably sinks to the lowest common denominator of the combatants. If you like to wrestle in the mud and your opponent likes to gouge out eyes, then sooner or later you will both be eye-gouging in the mud."

If the Isamofascists continue to make war against us, if they continue to threaten us, if they continue to gain power in the Muslim community at large, then we shall see what one writer calls "The Dark View of Islam on the American Street" translate into actions. If Americans become convinced that Islamic radicalism is an existential threat then, like the Germans and Japanese during World War II, all Muslims will be seen as legitimate targets in the war to defeat the Islamofascists. This is the big war I keep writing about that I see looming on the horizon.

Some foreign policy experts are beginning to publicly state why they believe our withdrawal and defeat in Iraq would not be such a bad thing. Others are convinced that the Iraq War has only made our security situation worse, which helps bolster the argument that a withdrawal and defeat would be harmful in the short term, but beneficial in the long run. Here, though, is an argument that the war in Iraq is providing a dumping ground for extremists, shipped out by their autocratic home governments to seek martyrdom (meaning, death) in Iraq.

Bob Woodward is adding to the mix, alleging in a new book, according to this New York Times story (they caught the Washington Post napping), that the President and his advisors are misleading the American people about how badly things are going in Iraq. Only a few weeks from the mid-term elections, hmmm...timing is everything, isn't it?