[lit-ideas] Re: How the West Could Lose

(...) but the matter is serious, and it ought to be obvious
that the number of committed Jihadists is much much greater than the number 
of committed Communists.


And the facts?

What are all of those "150 million" committed Jihadists doing?
- Once every six or nine months, four or six Muslims try to blow up a bus or whatever. Occassionally they do it, but mostly, they get caught.
- A few thousand are in Iraq, along with several tens of thousands of Iraqi Shiites and Sunni who are fighting a civil war with each other and occassionally take shots at Americans. 

- They burn effigies whenever a Dane draws another cartoon.
That's their level of commitment? They can get all upset over the USA, but that doesn't even lead to action. And because they have no infrastructure, they can't do anything that takes longer than a few days.
The Nazi, the Soviet Communists, the Chinese Communists on the other hand fought and won major land wars. Al Qaeda hardly even registers in comparison to them.
The Arabs, all of them, are incapable of fighting a land war. They don't have the social infrastructure, the technology, etc. Not even the Egyptian or Syrian army are a threat even to little Greece. The Islamic rabble is not a meaningful threat. 

yrs,
andreas
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