"Having just returned to America after a year's absence, I'm pondering this question: Why is it that the United States, which has not suffered a major terrorist attack at home for more than four years, thinks it's at war, while the United Kingdom, which was hit by a major terrorist attack just a year ago, does not?"
Er, Mr. Ash, it is precisely because America is on a war footing and all that entails, that she has not been attacked. While Britain, living in denial and appeasement, was attacked on not just 7/7 but on 21/7 as well. In addition, we are told that a further 3 Muslim terror attacks were foiled, 70 terror investigations are underway with 40 arrested, security services are tracking 1,200 terrorists and there are over 8,000 al Qaeda sympathizers in the UK.
Ash goes on to relate some obscene moral equivalence and engage in some hocus pocus.
When I wrote in this column a few weeks ago about the conundrum of suicide-bombers, the eminent military historian Michael Howard dropped me a line to remind me that European soldiers had been sent into battle in the first world war with the message that there was no higher honour than to die for your country. Not to live, to fight, to kill for your country - to die for it. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. In this respect, conservative Americans are closer to the mental world of pre-1914 Europeans or ancient Romans than they are to that of most contemporary Europeans.
Comparing Muslim suicide bombers, who wear no uniform and murder innocent men, women and children in coold blood, terrorists who murder in the name of a religion, with soldiers who wear a uniform and are fighting for freedom, is the moral thinking of many on the left today.
Notice how Ash then goes on to compare American conservatives with European soldiers who were sent into battle with the message that there is no higher honour than to die for your country. Well, I'm reminded of the words of George C. Scott in the Movie "Patton" where he said, "No man ever won a war by dying for his country. He won the war by making some other poor son of a bitch die for his country". The current kill rates in Iraq and Afghanistan bear that out. We regularly read that 50 terrorists were killed and one or no coalition forces were killed.
Mr. Ash, as do most liberals, indulges in the "it's our fault" mentality.
On the first anniversary of the July 7 2005 bombings in London, the truth is that the United Kingdom is at least as likely as the United States to be the target of another major terrorist attack. Perhaps it is even more likely, given the alienation of parts of Britain's Muslim community - an alienation exacerbated, though not caused, by the war in Iraq and the failure to resolve the Palestinian issue.
Who's fault is it Mr. Ash that British Muslims fail to integrate into British society? Several undercover investigations have proved that hate and intolerance are being taught to Britsh Muslims. A recent poll of Muslims found that 40% want Islamic law as the law of the land in the UK.
Ash ends with this peculiar statement.
"Americans have every cause to be proud on July 4. And on July 7, I'm rather proud to be British."
July 7 is the anniversary of the British Muslim terror attacks on London and if not for the security services on 21/7 as well; not to mention all the terror activities outlined above. Britain's denial, appeasement and multi-cultural disaster have made Britain a haven for terrorists and for this Mr. Ash is proud?
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