That Flapping Sound You Hear

Chickens coming home to roost

William Lind

The May 9 Washington Times reported that the six foreign-born Muslims accused of planning a shooting attack on the U.S. military base (Ft. Dix, New Jersey) included four ethnic Albanians, and U.S. officials say their arrests highlight how Islamic groups are using the Balkans region to help in recruiting and financing terrorism.

That flapping sound you hear is chickens coming home to roost. In the 1990s, the United States intervened militarily in the Balkans to create two new Islamic states, Bosnia and Kosovo. Both of those states — states by courtesy, since state institutions are weak in both — are now happy homes for Fourth Generation Islamic forces.

What led America to the strategic imbecility of replacing the Ottoman Empire as the protector of Balkan Moslems? Ideology, that worst of poisons loosed by the French Revolution. The specific ideology in question calls itself “multiculturalism,” though in fact it is the cultural Marxism of the Frankfurt School.http://www.military.com/opinion/0,15202,136652,00.html

2007-05-24