Bring on the Crusades

While reading Juan Cole's post today, How Would Cheney Complete the "War on Terror"?, I was struck by one paragraph.

James Woolsey and John Podhoretz have suggested that the US enter a World War IV against the Muslim world.

Professor Cole properly reminds us that "it has the disadvantage of bearing no relationship to the real world", and refers to Woolsey and Podhoretz as part of the "American Likud. The thought that two men, who do wield some power in Washington would even suggest this is indeed frightening. I grew up during the cold war and once a week went down into the basement of my grade school, sat down facing away from the small windows and tucked my head between my legs. That was scary, this is just as scary. It does indeed show the mindset of the neo-cons (American Likud) and the real Likud party in Israel. These people must be stopped.

The rest of the post is about the Bush/Cheney "War on Terror", which is really the war on Muslim countries with oil, and is worth a read.