Sub Specie Aeternitatis

Evil has existed since man's memory runneth not to the contrary. So, too, has naivete. Those who consider themselves moral, decent people (or leaders) have often sought an accommodation with evil. They include the pre-World War II appeasers and the appeasers of this generation. They are attempting to coerce Israel, the front line for democracy and Western values, to make compromises with the modern face of evil, a genocidal, nihilistic brand of Islam characterized by the obligation of Jihad. Netanyahu is not a barrier on the road to peace. Criticism of Islam is not by its nature inflammatory-those Muslims who seek reform of their own faith are by their actions-critics. To fall in line with those who urge limits on speech to protect this or any other faith advances totalitarianism. Any suppression of speech to spare feelings is an affront to universal human liberty. Silencing those who don't tow the party line and embrace political correctness will go a long way to losing the war which isn't after all against Islam or even terror but is the struggle to advance freedom and as Natan Sharansky has stated it, democratic values-as democracies virtually never make war on each other.