For years now I have warned over and over that our continuing ignorance of history as a people would come back to haunt the United States. Our leaders insist that Islam is a peaceful religion and that only Al Qaeda and “radical Islamic extremists” (thanks for that extreme phrase, John McCain) are to blame for Islamic terrorism. But I pay attention to history and this is why I won’t shut up.
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I would put one point to you all that is quite simple in the wake of the efforts in Iraq by United States armed forces and the Bush administration — whatever Fate has in store, there was never any road that was not going to keep Hamas from attaining the popular vote of the Palestinians. This is actually working to our advantage, because just like it was in the 1930’s, when Hitler’s Nazi Party came to power in Germany, Americans reacted with lackluster denials of the obvious, and so it is today.