Victor Davis Hanson well articulates at Real Clear Politics a theory that I have been mulling ever since 9/11: step—by—step, Western patience with Islamic terror and its supporters on multi—cultural grounds is dying. Sooner or later we will start fighting as if our lives depended on winning. Yet for all their threats, what the Islamists —— from Hezbollah in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley to the Iranian government in Tehran to the jihadists in Iraq's Sunni Triangle —— don't understand is that they are slowly pushing tired Westerners into a corner. If diplomacy, or aid, or support for democracy, or multiculturalism, or withdrawal from contested lands, does not satisfy radical Islamists, what would? Perhaps nothing. What then would be the new Western approach to terrorism? Hard and quick retaliation —— but without our past concern for nation—building, or offering a democratic alternative to theocracy and autocracy, or even...(Read Full Post)