The center of this culture is not holding. Even a few Democrats are worried that Hillary Clinton’s mendacities are unsustainable. More Americans privately confess that American foreign policy is dangerously adrift. They would agree that the U.S. no longer has a southern border, and will have to spend decades and billions of dollars coping with millions of new illegal aliens. Some Americans are starting to fear that the reckless borrowing under Obama will wreck the country if not stopped. . .Victor Davis Hanson . . . "Things are starting to collapse, abroad and at home. We all sense it, even as we bicker over who caused it and why.
"ISIS took Ramadi last week. That city once was a Bastogne to the
brave Americans who surged to save it in 2007 and 2008. ISIS, once known
at the White House as the “Jayvees,” were certainly “on the run” —
right into the middle of that strategically important city.
"On a smaller scale, ISIS is doing to the surge cities of Iraq what
Hitler did to his neighbors between 1939 and 1941, and what Putin is
perhaps doing now on the periphery of Russia. In Ramadi, ISIS will soon
do its accustomed thing of beheading and burning alive its captives,
seeking some new macabre twist to sustain its Internet video audience.
We in the West trample the First Amendment and jail a video maker for
posting a supposedly insensitive film about Islam; in contrast,
jihadists post snuff movies of burnings and beheadings to global audiences. We argue not about doing anything or saving anybody, but about whether it is inappropriate to call the macabre killers “jihadists.”
"When these seventh-century psychopaths tire of warring on people, they turn to attacking stones, seeking to ensure that there is not a vestige left of the Middle East’s once-glorious antiquities. I assume the ancient Sassanid and Roman imperial site at Palmyra will soon be looted and smashed." . . .
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