Not only one enemy

Al Quaeda's warning to Europe mentions specifically Italy, Denmark and the Netherlands, demanding an immediate withdrawal of their troops from Iraq. This is highly suspicious: Holland's troops have left Iraq last March. Are the terrorists so uninformed? Or are we seeing something at play here exploiting the fear of the latest bombings? Are we sure that our only enemy is a bearded man living in the mountains of South Asia?

Terrorists must know by now, if they haven't limited their readings to Mein Kampf and the Protocols of Zion, that they don't have a chance in hell of succeeding. Their only chance resides with allying themselves with the Galloways, the Coles, the Ritters, the Chomskys we suffer and tolerate - and this is democracy too - hoping that we will listen to them. This will not happen: not every country is Spain, not every man is a traitor. It might well be, in fact, that Bin Laden in a few decades will be saluted as the one who brought about (or at least caused) the modernization of Islam and its embrace of the civilized world. So much for the caliphate.

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