15 On

Fifteen years after September 11th the West is in strategic and cultural retreat.

Europe takes in a flood of 800,000 Muslim men and blames itself for the pike in sexual assaults. Meanwhile towns approve Islamist plans for skyline dominating Islamist Mosques. The elite of NYC castigates New Yorkers for objecting to a Mosque across the street from Ground Zero. Muslim culture in America thinks itself the main victim of 9/11. Mr. Trump says we should halt immigration from the Islamic World. Those same elites who love the idea of a 9/11 Victory Mosque are positively scandalized by his remarks.

Islamic terror is now a regular feature in Europe and even the United States.

Iran has swindled us all and will soon have nuclear weapons, unless the Israelis stop them. Which they will. Obama's indifference drives Saudi Arabia and Israel together against the common threat.

In the Middle East the strategic situation is not bad.

The so called Arab Spring had the effect of removing the sclerotic regimes of Egypt, Libya, et al and removing the regions mask. American forces engage ISIS in Iraq and Syria and continue to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan. The Israelis have fought four wars against Islamist groups and won resounding victories in three of them. Israel's development of wonders like Iron Dome, Trophy, etc is astounding.

That said, germane to a few previous posts, were people in 1956 debating what to do with about the Germans and the Japanese.

I recall and episode of Huntley-Brinkley in 1995 in which William F. George proclaimed, 'The world is so much better off than it was 15 years ago.'

Not true today, is it?