Choose Dishonor, Get War!

You had a choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor. You shall have war.
- Winston Churchill (on Chamberlain's yielding to Hitler's demands)

From a New York Times (registration required) article:

If It's a Muslim Problem, It Needs a Muslim Solution : By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN [/] Published: July 8, 2005.

Au contraire, dear sir:

KJV Genesis 4: 9And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: ,Am I my brother's keeper?

KJV Romans 13:3-4 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.

Voters in a democracy have a responsibility to elect those who will " execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.", particularly upon those who do the evil of indiscriminate mass murder to the voter's fellow citizens in their own country.

[…] Yesterday's bombings in downtown London are profoundly disturbing. […] That would be deeply troubling because open societies depend on trust - on trusting that the person sitting next to you on the bus or subway is not wearing dynamite. [/] The attacks are also deeply disturbing because when jihadist bombers take their madness into the heart of our open societies, our societies are never again quite as open. Indeed, we all just lost a little freedom yesterday.

Poor us, our comfort zones are shrinking.

[…] But when Al-Qaeda-like bombings come to the London Underground, that becomes a civilizational problem. Every Muslim living in a Western society suddenly becomes a suspect, becomes a potential walking bomb. And when that happens, it means Western countries are going to be tempted to crack down even harder on their own Muslim populations.

Poor Muslims, their comfort zones may be effected.

[…] That, too, is deeply troubling. The more Western societies - particularly the big European societies, which have much larger Muslim populations than America - look on their own Muslims with suspicion, the more internal tensions this creates, and the more alienated their already alienated Muslim youth become. This is exactly what Osama bin Laden dreamed of with 9/11: to create a great gulf between the Muslim world and the globalizing West.

The "great gulf" has always been there.

It is the resistance to closing the gulf by the dictators of the Islamic world that is responsible for the continuation of the barrier to the full blessings of modern Western civilization.

And the need of the dictators to find an external enemy to blame for their own faults that has, via oil profits, funded jihadist preaching, education, training, supplies, bribes, salaries, life insurance, weapons, etc.

[…] Because there is no obvious target to retaliate against, and because there are not enough police to police every opening in an open society, either the Muslim world begins to really restrain, inhibit and denounce its own extremists - if it turns out that they are behind the London bombings - or the West is going to do it for them. And the West will do it in a rough, crude way - by simply shutting them out, denying them visas and making every Muslim in its midst guilty until proven innocent.

Mr. Friedman would have us avoid any "rough, crude way[s]". This, to him, is much, much, worse that the continuation of the slaughter of thousands of human beings.

[…] The double-decker buses of London and the subways of Paris, as well as the covered markets of Riyadh, Bali and Cairo, will never be secure as long as the Muslim village and elders do not take on, delegitimize, condemn and isolate the extremists in their midst.

Mr. Friedman would have us remain at their mercy.

Rather than to do the honorable and just thing: to intelligently use all available weapons against the doers of obvious and egregious evil.