The worst the Sunni-Takfiris can do is "some attack that might be bloody in nature but certainly not mortal to any of the societies of the West..."

"WHY MCCAIN is the WRONG MAN" writes Pat Lang

"So, this transcendent threat is greater than anything else around? It is greater than the shakiness of the economy, the threat of pestilence, the competition provided by an emerging China, all of that?

I don't think so. The Sunni takfiri networks command the allegiance of a few thousand at most. The worst they could POSSIBLY do to all those they hate and despise would involve some attack that might be bloody in nature but certainly not mortal to any of the societies of the West. Transcendent? If you want transcendence in a threat, you must find something more than a few radicals who through a clever ruse stole a few airplanes and crashed them into buildings. And we accept such rubbish?

Our ancestors who fought at Gettysburg or on any number of other flaming fields who scoff.

What is the matter with him? He should know better than to think this or talk like this.

We should form "a new international group of countries" to "confront" this threat? I guess they did not teach Thucydides at the Naval Academy when he was there. The Delian League was the Athenian Empire in all but name. What sort of "league" would we call this?" pl