Two friends in England I have known for years who lived through the Blitz have expressed their concern to me that this recent kidnapping of British sailors and marines by the Iranians not inflame passions. As they shared with me, you must have lived those years of WWII with the bombs dropping on your own nation and losing friends and loved ones to such a barbaric nightmare to really understand what is at stake when things get out of control and leaders take sensible people into harm’s way where they would not choose to go. But my friends are also acutely aware that encroaching Islamization of Europe and England is heading for a dramatic confrontation, and they are acutely aware of how easily things like this recent kidnapping of British sailors and marines can quickly escalate out of control and ignite the growing tinderbox of passions largely brought about by the American military presence in the Middle East.

Since my writing is sent to a personal list of friends, including some VIPs in government and the media, that has grown over the years a few expressed the thought my last column (deleted) used a pejorative term for the Muslim kidnappers of those British sailors and marines to see what kind of responses it would elicit? One, an anchor for a cable TV news channel, even asked “Did the Devil make you do it?” While I made no such admission he knows I have a devious mind, and I did mention the need to get the “mule’s” attention and referred him to the following: Time to get real about Islam. By Diana West, Friday, March 23, 2007: Here’s a conundrum: The craziest thing about America’s role in the world is its reliance on logic. As in: Such certitude animates the more naive notions masquerading as grand strategy,... Clearly, the American logic of a “hearts and minds” strategy relies on wishful thinking...

Diana goes on in her column to point out the wishful thinking on the part of those naïve to the threat of Islam to Western Civilization is based on how they see the world as it should be, not the reality of the world as it is; and the real world is dangerous, harsh, and brutal in the extreme. While politicians, the MSM and their dupes preach an insane gospel of appeasement to Muslims, the fact Americans are dieing in Iraq and Afghanistan for the sake of keeping the politicians in power, corporations in business and the oil flowing Cindy Sheehan has a shrill voice, but “Actor Charlie Sheen has joined a growing army of other highly credible public figures in questioning the official story of 9/11 and calling for a new independent investigation of the attack and the circumstances surrounding it.”

If you haven’t done so, read Sheen’s take on 9/11 and you can’t help wondering whether Bush’s secret rush to get Saudi’s safely out of the way may be just as sinister as some suppose. But whatever the truth may be there remain some people sensible of the fact you cannot make nice to Muslims all the while they refer to you as “Infidel!” and will never raise their voices in concert to confront the barbarism of some of their fellow followers of a bloodthirsty Allah and his perverted “prophet.” Even those given to beheadings and using children as human bombs get a free pass in Muslim nations, much as those here in America in the universities and MSM calling themselves “liberal.”

Conspiracy theories originate from the secret dealings of governments. And the tired theme of “national security” no longer works, especially in light of the fact our own politicians refuse to secure our borders despite the obvious harm this is doing to America, despite the obvious fact those wanting us dead find easy access for accomplishing their purpose. Wishful thinking didn’t make Hitler or Tojo go away. And vain attempts at appeasement on the part of the wishful thinkers with their peculiar doctrine of “See how reasonable we are? That’ll fix you,” and “Hearts and minds” are doomed at the very least to disappointment, but it will undoubtedly be a lot worse than that.

Let those not used to using plain language or facing facts consider what is happening in the civilized world. Cosmology, string theory (The Elegant Universe) and mysteries of the universe are getting a lot of deserved attention here of late. But let’s hear of Muslim nations (or those like Mexico) making a contribution to such science. Rather than committing to killing each other and all “infidels,” rather than threatening to wipe Israel off the map how about Muslims bending their efforts to healing their own vast suffering of the countless millions their leaders hold in superstitious ignorance and poverty.

Conventions change; human nature does not. And as Thoreau pointed out the civilized man is only a more knowledgeable savage. It is for this reason I fear all we have accomplished is the feat of being able to exterminate human beings in the millions instead of the hundreds. It remains to be seen which millions, if any, survive the coming conflict of nations. Just to watch what is going on in our own government right now assures the coming conflict.