Thursday, May 17, 2007

Vindicating the Islamists By Gregory Faulkner

"One of the tenets of radical Islam's strategy is that the United States is weak-willed, and will do little more than equivocate or vacillate in the face of threats. The Islamists are confident that they can, quite literally, get away with murder. ‘Don't worry,' they say to themselves, ‘the Americans have no staying power; they grow war-weary after a few years and will beat the quickest path home.'
This attitude is addressed by famed Middle East scholar Bernard Lewis in an op-ed for Wednesday's Wall Street Journal, in which the author details the contempt that many Arabs have for American might:"

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