This is a brilliant, and I mean brilliant essay by Mark Steyn.
I find Steyn at the top of his game when he talks about how very deeply in denial the West is about the nature of Islamic terrorism. He really gets it. This is of course, directly related to his understanding of what antisemitism is about.
This essay is going to be an instant classic.
It's about Nidal Hasan, the Ft. Hood jihadist specifically and generally about the pernicious nature of the "see no jihadist evil" that permeates our culture from top to bottom.
On this topic, Mark Steyn is really at his best. The whole essay is outstanding, but I have to say that his conclusion (which was truly artfully set up in the lede with a fantastical historical look backward in time) made the hair on my arms stand:
"The response to Nidal Hasan helps explain why, in Afghanistan and elsewhere, this war is being lost — because it cannot be won because, increasingly, it cannot even be acknowledged. Which helps explain why it now takes the U.S. military longer to prosecute a case of “workplace violence” than it did to win World War Two. "
Think about that for a while. It is an absolutely astonishing fact.
But facts are irrelevant to our elites and the left.
