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From commenter A.M. Whittaker:
Well, now they understand!
This article is from today’s (22 Aug 2006) New York Times and concerns the recent bomb plot in Germany:
“People thought for the longest time that Germany would be safe because we didn’t send troops to Iraq,” said Johannes Schmalz, the president of the agency for the protection of the constitution — a rough equivalent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation — in the state of Baden-Wurttemberg.
“This presumption is wrong,” he said. “The enemy of violent Islamists is the Western world as a whole.”
The NY Times even seems to endorse this view, appearing to call it a "blunt reality" in the next sentence:
That blunt reality is influencing the debate over how strongly to respond...
