Respect is due, Don Goomba. Excellent post.

Sorry Ace, forgot where I was posting my comment--I was over at Nickie's before I clicked here: nevertheless, all mistaken identity aside, thanks for the great post.

There's not "more evil" today, its just that modern transportation technology has given it more mobility than was possible before.

" is why this ideology has grown in its appeal to young Muslims. "

The very fact that we don't see too many 60 year old suicide bombers leads me to believe that the naivety that is abundant in the young through a lack of worldly experience is being exploited when combined with brainwashing.

Tell a horny young man who can't get laid he can get 72 virgins and be a 'somebody' and they'll be lining up around the block. This is especially the case when they do nothing but implant the idea that their life is going to be crap thanks to the Great Satan.

Which reminds me, why is nobody asking about the increase in gang violence, and how it has grown in appeal to young people?

Rebelliousness? In the 80's we all grew long hair, now they either get involved in gang violence or strap a bomb on their back.

Tsch, kids nowaday..
/old man

Ring,

Could it be that nobody is asking about the increase in youth violence because youth violence has actually decreased?

Here is my take in the context of video game censorship by Sen. Clinton.

Leftism = Slave Morality

In re: terrorism, we can worry about the "why" some other day; right now it's more important to focus on the "who" and the "where".

Why is there more evil around, Mr. Clark? Maybe because evil has finally figured out that it doesn't need to hide in the shadows--it can walk around in broad daylight and still we'll find a way not to see it.

We've had so many repugnant laws and so many bad policies shoved down our throats by Liberals and been so frustated for so long about it all that we've become passive and apathetic. Liberals have taught us to be quiet in the face of grave injustice, even when it gets right in our face. They've taught us to fear the powerful and the rich and not speak out about it. Their arrogance, their condesencion and their continual dishonesty no longer insult us anymore. They've taught us that instead of ourselves they are our primary caregivers and we're better off turning our will and our lives over to the care of the Nanny state. They have forcibly intruded into our lives in all sorts of ways, and we no longer fight back anymore. It was at this critical point, when we all stopped fighting back that Atlas Shrugged and the Liberal Poison really took effect. The roots of apathy and cynisicm run deep now, tended by decades of Liberal rule. If all the Liberals just put their heads in the sand and were chewed up by the rabid dog of Islam that would be fine, but they're taking too many with them. Hopefully, those who are still left with strength and courage will prevail.

This damn evil has been running around since at least 1948 and romanticized and embraced by appeasors since 1972. It is not a new phenomonen.

Trying to understand the reasons for terror before doing something about it is like being a passenger on the Titanic and saying, "I'm not getting in the lifeboat until I understand why the ship is sinking."

Brought to you by the same people who can't confirm global warming is happening, or if it is, if we can do anything about it, yet still insist we must destroy the world economy RIGHT NOW to combat it. Somehow. We think.

One of the sad losses of our times is the loss of the ability to shame, or to be ashamed. The bad guys have always been with us. Now, they can be with us and be "understood".

Whether one likes it or not, black is still black, white is still white, bad is still bad and good is still good, no matter how relativist apologists try to tell us otherwise.

Carlos

One of the sad losses of our times is the loss of the ability to shame, or to be ashamed. The bad guys have always been with us. Now, they can be with us and be "understood"... Whether one likes it or not, bad is still bad and good is still good ...

Pope John Paul II used to describe it as "the death of conscience" and its quite true. We've been so lulled (or rather bullied) into "tolerance" by so many years of Liberal demonizing against anyone who disagrees with them that we instinctively shrug, instead of raising hell when we should, like people used to do. If I had to point to one figure in the US who is more responsible than anyone else for it, it is Bill Clinton. His continual race and gender baiting, his demonizing of everyone who disagreed with him, his treasonus actions in giving the W-88 warhead, missle technology and fabrication equipment to the Chicoms for bribes, his starting that idiotic war in Kosvo (when the Christians had ejected 90% of the trouble making Moslems, he brought them all back and created a permanent siege between them) to draw attention from the above, and his "accidental" bombing of the Chinese embassy to confuse the world about it, were just a few of the many, many things he did to kill our consience. Watergate had the catharitic effect of showing us that even the most powerful man in the country was not above the law. Bill showed us the opposite: that the rich and powerful really are above the law now and we can't fight them, so just lay down and try not to think about it all. We shall be paying for his crimes, his cowardice and his treachery for a long time to come.