The apotheosis of fecklessness and denial.

Mr. J.R. Nyquist delivers the truth with the subtlety of a fire engine headed to a four-alarm fire, which, if you think about it, isn't a bad metaphor:

The world’s dominant civilization – the West – has lost its way. . . .

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. . . "The enemy is Islam," [Paul Williams, author of "The Dunces of Doomsday,] writes. "Not a fringe group within this body of believers . . . .

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Williams lists ten blunders that give rise to radical Islam and the threat of an American Hiroshima. The first of these blunders is our refusal to identify our enemy. The tenth blunder is our failure to declare war on radical Islam itself. "The Bush administration vacillates over just about everything," says Williams. "It remains reluctant to firebomb the poppy fields in Afghanistan and to ferret out the mujahideen in Pakistan. The administration has been unwilling to address the situation within U.S. mosques and the problem of radical Islam within the federal prison system [where its spread is tolerated]." . . . Only a declaration of war wills serve to orient the American legal and political system . . . .

War to the death against America is preached in mosques around the world. The killing of American women and children has been sanctioned by Muslim clerics. Al Qaeda’s stated objective is to kill two million American children. . . . [T]he illusions of America’s elite go hand in hand with the country’s prosperity. . . . [T]he drug of prosperity conditions the brain of the American to shun a full warlike posture . . . . Admitting the existence of an enemy is a frank acknowledgement that a state of war exists. If the enemy should consist of a few violent lunatics hiding in caves, why should the shopping mall regime close its doors? The situation is that of a manhunt and nothing more.

. . . Williams also makes note of a "classified CIA survey" showing that 95 percent of educated Saudis between the ages of twenty-one and forty-five support al Qaeda and jihad. . . .

But the ten blunders listed by Williams are, in fact, the foundations of American policy, the fountainhead of an ever-unfolding fiasco that cannot end well.

"The Bungle Factor." By J. R. Nyquist, Financial Sense Online, 7/28/06 (emphasis added).