tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18745582.post114358509255866826..comments2023-05-27T10:50:20.637-05:00Comments on Literatrix: The Return of FangirlJennifer Snowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039865566870992465noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18745582.post-1144182686810526282006-04-04T15:31:00.000-05:002006-04-04T15:31:00.000-05:00I hope you'll also correct me, I don't want to be ...I hope you'll also correct me, I don't want to be spreading misrepresentations.<BR/><BR/>Thank you for stopping by.Jennifer Snowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00039865566870992465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18745582.post-1144172520279794222006-04-04T12:42:00.000-05:002006-04-04T12:42:00.000-05:00I was amused to see you're defending me. But do I ...I was amused to see you're defending me. But do I need defenders?<BR/><BR/>I'm not much interested in defending myself against guys who were once good friends (Nick) and guys for whom I have the greatest respect (Yaron).<BR/><BR/>From time to time I've taken shots at black predictions of America's doom. I'll keep doing it and, I suppose, the doomsayers will keep firing back. I’ll never sell America short.<BR/><BR/>I can't shake the fact that America outlasted the Soviet Union in the Cold War and, today, the enemy we face is far weaker.<BR/><BR/>Relative to the Soviet Union, the Muslims are materially impotent and intellectually shallow. Unlike the communists, they can't count on a substantial sympathetic moral support from among our own countrymen.<BR/><BR/>I can't shake the fact that the Muslim war against us takes place against a backdrop of the globalization of the American Dream. The U.S. and the Muslims are fighting over former communist possessions in Arabia and South-Central Asia. The Islamists don't yet even control the Muslim World. Strategically, for Islam, this is a defensive war.<BR/><BR/>The truth--even if Americans can't articulate it--is on our side. Against our inarticulate defense of our way of life, Islam offers only the thin gruel of the dogmas of traditional society. They think their terrorists attack without warning. But attacks on their system can come without warning from any direction: from Indian guest workers at the palace, from fellow Muslims who want a better life in the real world more than a welcome to an imagined afterlife, from their own wives and daughters, from salsa music and what is shown on T.V.<BR/><BR/>I'm happy to have fans. If you get it wrong in arguing about what I've been writing, I'll wince, but not complain.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com