Ed Koch was a force to deal with in his day. A strong and dedicated man whom no conservative could best. He was the product of the JFK (no, not Kerry) and Roosevelt Democrats. They were Americans who believed in Liberal policies as a solution. As with most mortal humans, they were wrong about the power of those policies, or the longevity. Mny things are required only for a time, and need to be tossed away when the job is complete – something today’s liberals do not grasp as the delude themselves into thinking the policies of the early 20th century will solve the problems of the 21st century.

Today’s liberals are anti-America. They are liberals who would prefer America’s image change radically to the failed policies of the French and other EU states which are all facade and ancient myths of bravery long gone. So I doubt Ed Kock can sway his party to see America as a beacon of light and opposed to a siren of hell, but he does try:

There are those who believe that the Western countries should withdraw from Iraq and that such capitulation will somehow end Islamist terror or at least seriously reduce its intensity in the world outside the Middle East. Can we or should we abandon the Middle East? Should we leave our allies, Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia to the tender mercies of Islamic terrorists? There were many before World War II who would have left the Jews, England, France and Russia to fend for themselves in the face of the annihilation sought by Hitler, his Nazi armies, the SS, the Gestapo and the final solution.

As I have repeatedly written, take Islamic radicals at their word — they want to convert us or kill us. They are killing one another, Shia against Sunni and Sunni against Shia. Often before decapitating their enemies in the ongoing civil and religious strife in Baghdad, they torture their victims, according to The Times, by drilling holes in their bodies and heads so death is slow and cruel until the merciful bullet is fired into the victim’s head.

Can any independent state threatened with acts of terror, unless it changes its policies, domestic or foreign, ever submit to their demands and expect to protect its citizens from new demands? Has appeasement ever worked?

There are those in every Western democracy who are losing their resolve, their willingness to standup to the Islamic terrorists. U.S. Senator Russ Feingold (D-Wisconsin) deplores the use of the term “Islamic fascists,” sometimes used by the White House. The terrorism we face is worldwide and has an Islamist goal — the restoration of the caliphate, one Islamic state including Spain, North Africa, the Middle East to the Far East, including Indonesia. Take them at their word. The words of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, now dead and heretofore leader of Iraq’s insurrection and terror, are, “Killing the infidel is our religion, slaughtering them is our religion, until they convert to Islam or pay us tribute.”

Americans would do well to listen to the terrorists and ignore those on the left in panicked denial. They see the danger and are angry at those Americans who are trying to face down the danger. The left naively believes the terrorists will let us live to remind them of the failure the rabid Islamists are. As long as we have success, good lives and freedom of expression we represent the biggest threat to Islamo Fascism. Therefore, we cannot be allowed to exist and be the ever present reminder that rabid Islam does not provide the ‘good life’. Take the terrorists at their word and ignore those who are desparately trying to pretend reality doesn’t exist.