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COMMENTER AST POSTS:
One of the things I learned reading Bernard Lewis is that this struggle [Islam attacking the West] isn't new. The Islamic tide reached its height in the 1400s and they have lost consistently ever since. What's new is that oil has made them feel rich and powerful again and the old Jihad snake oil is being sold. When they started losing wars back 500 years ago, they thought all they needed was western weapons and military techniques and they'd recover. It hasn't worked out that way, but they think that if they just can get a nuclear weapon they could start winning again.
They don't really understand or believe the horror of such a battle, and they mistake our desire to avoid it as a form of weakness. In some ways, they're right. A lot of the West is whistling past the graveyard, hoping that they'll be satisfied with blowing up Tel Aviv, but these letters from Ahmedinejad signal something pretty scary, if the mullahs running the show really are behind him. He's basically laying the groundwork for launching a just Jihad according to Islamic Law.
We have 1400 years of history of this, and it's still going on today.
