The Children of Beslan

The unique depravity of modern Islamic terror.

The editors of The Wall Street Journal weigh in on the subject of Beslan. It is, they argue, at least as much an intellectual battle as anything else. The implosion of Islam has created an environment for one third of the world's population which is mired in an ideology of hate, rage, envy and resentment, just like that of the Angry Left one might point out. And one might also point out that this is why the Angry Left continues to make excuses for the barbarism we saw this week in Russia. But this intellectual battle is slowly going our way. For no civilized nation can look at what took place in Beslan and give any excuse for it that would convince anyone who wasn't already a hate filled leftist. For the rest of us, we see the horror and react with revulsion to those who would stab children with bayonets for asking for drinking water. The moral meaning of such a thing needs no further explanation.

The problems of the Arab world are being exported to all of the rest of us. And there are two solutions. The first is to clean up the Arab world and bring it in line with the rest of humanity. And for this, the Arabs have to come to their senses, because we cannot do that job alone. The second possibility is that the world will simply become tired of the Arab refusal to solve their problems, and that story ends in a radioactive mushroom cloud over the Middle East. Problem solved.

Arabs; take your pick and choose wisely.