First and foremost: up until now there had been absolutely no number of terrorist murders, kidnappings, beheadings, or bombing that could ever make lefties and Europeans blame anyone but the United States for what they, the terrorists, did. It was of course our oppression of these savages and the abject poverty we forced them to live in (despite the billions of our petro-dollars that flow into their government coffers) that was causing them such despair that they felt they had to lash out at our interests and us. After all, Islam is the religion of peace don’t you know, and the decadence of the West was infuriating to them and they felt compelled to respond by trying to destroy us.

But as the United States has engaged in the War On Terror and terrorist attacks have continued around the globe in London, Madrid, Bali, Bombay, etc., the rest of the world has been slowly coming to the conclusion that, while not taking part in any of the oppression heaped on the Middle East by the big bad United States and while going out of their way to appease these monsters, they themselves have become targets anyway.

While there has been some obligatory European whining at Israel (aren’t you just sick of France?) for their “disproportionate response” to the terrorist attacks, there has been no major uproar over their actions, if you don’t count the liberals here and there calling the talk shows crying about the innocent Muslims being killed with no concern for the innocent Israelis who died in the original attacks. In fact there seems to be something of a global understanding of the Israeli’s forceful reaction and dare I say it – some are actually rooting for Israel to do the dirty work others do not want to do?

The United States’ War On Terror and its attempt to stand up democratic governments in Afghanistan and Iraq has demonstrated to the world that these animals will never stop their terror attacks on their own nor their war on the West. And it is clear that it is Iran that supports terrorists around the world as well as the insurgents in Iraq. It is they who prolong that country’s difficult path to democratic independence and they likely back the resurgence of the Taliban as well. It is becoming apparent to all with the courage to admit it, that it is neither George W Bush’s fault nor the fault of any other nation in this world that these people do what they do. It is simply their perverted understanding of their religion that calls for either the conversion or the extermination of the infidels – that is, everyone not like them. They even brutally kill thousands and thousands of Muslims to make their point.

Thanks to Hamas’ and Hezbollah’s recent activities, no longer is the conversation around the world dominated by what the West can do differently to make them stop hating us. The conversation is now about Iran’s nuke program, it’s support of Hezbollah and Hamas, and it’s projection of it fanatical terrorism everywhere in the world. The talk now is about how far Israel should go - not how they need to stop. The talk is about what role the U.S. should play in the toppling of terror master Iran and its client state - Syria. It is more obvious to the world that it is a regional war, with a number states working in concert to wreak havoc around the world. Now the fight is being brought to them. It is not by accident that we have not been attacked again here in America. As part of the Bush Doctrine GWB declared it was better to fight terrorism over there rather than over here. We are doing that.

Of course we still have our dedicated left-wingers, blaming GWB and the U.S. for everything these people in the Middle East do. Particularly grating to me is this article by Joe Conason in the NY Observer: http://observer.com/20060724/20060724_Joe_Conason_politics_joeconason-2.asp. In typical liberal fashion Mr. Conason sees what is happening in the Middle East right now as a bad thing and he blames the Bush administration for it as if the Middle East’s problem began in 2000.

He specifically mentions the free election in Palestine, which put a terror group in power there - Hamas. President Bush had demanded free elections for the Palestinians to give them the opportunity to exercise democracy and make their own choice on the direction of their state, and what did they do? They elected terrorists. Dumb move –yes. Bush’s move –no.

Mr. Conason is more concerned with our President chewing with his mouth open and saying the “s-word” to Tony Blair than he is with the defeat of Islamic terrorism. People like him just don’t understand that is how real men, not pampered little elitists (like journalists), act. People like him are simply not serious. Rather than deal with what the President said when he used that word – gasp! – Mr. Conason focuses on the word itself. What he said was true but he used a bad word when he said it. WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!! Frankly if it was me I’d be saying a lot worse.

Liberals always want to point the attention away from the true cause of the hostilities and blame America first. They will cite anything other than the fact that these people are seventh-century, misguided, religious fanatics who cannot be reasoned with and they only respect the edge of a sword. Liberals love to cite the Crusades 700 years ago and point to the fact that Christians are violent too and that the Muslims still carry a grudge from back then. Please review your history. The Crusades were fought for the very same reasons that the War on Terror is fought today – for survival against these whack-jobs.

Today in this case, liberals want to concentrate on everything Israel does and every thing America does not do. They would never blame the actual perpetrators of this violence because they are scared of conflict. They want Israel to exhibit restraint as if that would make Hezbollah play nice, and they want George Bush to call Israel off. Well this time he’s not going to. Can’t liberals ever look at the history of the region and see that every time Israel agrees to a cease-fire the terrorists come back at them later on with bigger and more deadly weapons? No they can’t. After all they went to public schools and no one learns any meaningful history there anymore.

Liberals are always afraid of fighting despite all their protestations to the contrary. They would rather talk, talk, talk. Meanwhile while they talk themselves blue in the face, the nut jobs over there are building nukes and supporting terrorist strikes against us around the world behind our backs, sometimes with a nice little beheading on video thrown in for good measure - just to make the liberals tremble.

The savages know that if they continue with their abhorrent behaviors liberals will offer them even more concessions and goodies, as if that would stop them. Imagine if your Mom gave you candy every time you acted out as a kid – that would make you stop acting out wouldn’t it? More likely it was the threat of your Dad coming home and whacking you one that got you to stop. Liberals just never seem to get it.

It should have been clear back in the 90’s when Clinton brokered the deal in which Israel agreed to give up way too much in exchange for peace and Yassar Arafat turned it down anyway. He then launched a new infintada against Israel reigning death and destruction on the Jews. This is what appeasement and concession brought the Israelis. It is obvious to anyone paying attention to the real world rather than to theories (explaining why liberals totally miss it) that complete extermination of Israel and infidels worldwide is all these people want. They will do whatever they have to do to attain those goals.

Then there is the impotent United Nations. The United Nations is the be-all, end-all to them, a virtual nirvana to a liberal. Every day is a new day to these liberals and whatever happened in the past is irrelevant. Their theory is that whenever there is a problem in the world the UN, which stands for truth and justice (but not the American way ‘cause America’s bad, bad, bad), will rush in to solve all of the world’s problems -by talking. This despite the many past toothless resolutions this worthless organization adopts to address situations around the world. The UN never seems to be able to gin up the courage to enforce any of them though. If the UN had had the nerve to enforce their many resolutions against Iraq and Saddam Hussein, the United States would never have had to do it for them. The same applies to UN resolution 1559 which demanded Hezbollah leave Lebanon. Worthless.

It takes nerve to do what Bush has done and it takes nerve to do what the Israelis are doing – something a liberal is in short supply of. They hate Bush and they hate Israel because they are simply enforcing resolutions agreed to and issued by liberal’s favorite group – the United Nations. They are quick to overlook that in their rush to call Bush Hitler and the like. Unfortunately many of us in the West have no nerve and some of us simply lose our nerve far too quickly.

But the rest of the world - they are starting to get it. This is getting old now. They know that Israel needs to annihilate Hezbollah. Israel has shown the “land for peace” thing to be a total liberal fantasy. What more could the Israelis have done? They pulled out of Lebanon six years ago and they pulled out of Gaza last year. The complaint before then was always that Israelis were occupiers and the attacks on them were justified. Well no more. The Israelis have pulled back to their original borders and all that has happened as a result is that the terror scum have rushed in to fill the empty land and used it to launch further attacks against the Jews. The Israelis have always been forced to retaliate and protect themselves, and who could blame them? They have endured terror attacks throughout their entire existence. What would Americans expect if missiles were being lobbed in the U.S. from Canada? They would expect our government to deliver a butt kicking. Despite the claims of the liberal media, like us, Israel would not attack their neighbors if they were not antagonized. But they will deliver a butt kicking.

Even Saudi Arabia has criticized Hezbollah for their actions. They have no desire to been painted with the same brush as these savages. The last thing they need is for democracy to start spreading into their lands as a result of their people becoming fed up with this extremism and the war and upheaval it brings. The same applies to Egypt, Jordan, and other Arab states. Who could ever imagine such a thing happening before the Bush Doctrine? Criticize Arabs for “inappropriate and irresponsible” actions in attacking Jews? Never!

The main point being that it appears that the terrorists have underestimated the West and Israel. They have overplayed their hand and exposed their cards. It is clear now that their intention is to wipe out the Jews and all infidels, that they work together to do so, and they will do anything to distract the world from the development of Iranian nukes. The liberals who have sneered at the Bush Doctrine and the man himself have underestimated everything.

The Bush Doctrine is working albeit slowly. President Bush said this would be a long slow process. Rome wasn’t built in a day and the same is true for a democratic Iraq and Middle East. Three years is not a long time in the scope of things. But the seeds have been planted and people there are starting to realize there is another way to live and that they do not have to accept that things will always be this way over there. Don’t believe the talk about Iraqis wanting us out being propagated by the mainstream media. Iraqis want to be free and they know it will take time for everything to fall into place. The U.S. Constitution wasn’t completed until twelve years after the American Revolution, why would we expect them to be like us in three years? Spoiled Westerners who demand instant results and instant gratification cannot understand the need for patience.

We have changed the mix in the region and the world is slowly changing. Bush realized that the definition of insanity was doing the same things over and over and expecting different results. He has changed the mix and he has changed our response. Now it is the terrorists who have to change – or die.

President Bush must accelerate his administration’s efforts to undermine all Islamofacist regimes throughout the region, either through the influencing of their citizens to fight for change on their own or through our own military action if need be, particularly in Iran. We cannot sit back here on the sidelines anymore and let these problems fester until the terrorists have nukes and Chicago disappears. Liberals need to be clear and understand that they are at risk just like the rest of us. They need to grow up and quit acting like pampered children and realize that this war has been thrust upon us – we did not choose it. Real men know when the time arrives and they have to fight. No amount of talking can get us out of this one. Sometimes war is the answer if it’s the correct question. The current question is: How do we stop the Islamofacists before they kill all of us? Answer: you go to war and kill them first! End of story libs.

So with apologies to Michael Ledeen, the Middle East policy expert who writes columns for National Review Online and numerous other publications, I must borrow his closing line: “Faster please!”