London’s Terror Thursday has brought home to me, with renewed vigor, the utter monstrousness of what we are up against — a worldwide criminal conspiracy of jihadists objectively working in perfect tandem with Western governments whose foreign policy of perpetual war seems designed to bolster the terrorist cause and give them every reason to expect success. As the news of the London bombings greeted me on Thursday morning, like some waking nightmare, I couldn’t help but recall the opening lines of Michael Scheuer’s Imperial Hubris:
“As I complete this book, U.S., British, and other coalition forces are trying to govern apparently ungovernable postwar states in Afghanistan and Iraq, while simultaneously fighting growing Islamist insurgencies in each – a state of affairs our leaders call victory. In conducting these activities, and the conventional military campaigns preceding them, U.S. forces and policies are completing the radicalization of the Islamic world, something Osama bin Laden has been trying to do with substantial but incomplete success since the early 1990s. As a result, I think it fair to conclude that the United States of America remains bin Laden’s only indispensable ally.”
I would not be at all surprised if the same terrorist networks that are currently operating in Iraq are responsible for the London blasts, as this report alleges. In Afghanistan, during the anti-Soviet jihad, we created a Frankenstein monster in the form of Al Qaeda, which came back to haunt us — and now we are creating for it a twin in Iraq.