Comparing the restrained, even self-hobbling response of the West to 9/11 with how an Al-Qaeda attack on Russia or China --both repressive to Muslims and ruthless when threatened-- might have gone, Wretchard writes:
"There are times when I am tempted to think that the Western Left is radical Islam's Ring of Power. And the brilliance of al-Qaeda's reliance on it as a force-multiplier is that the defeat of radical Islam must consequently come at the price of altering the structure of post-war Western politics itself.
In a sense the Western Left has become a hostage to the current world crisis, and perhaps the only part of the Left that understands this are the signatories of the Euston Manifesto, who realized that al-Qaeda had already claimed its political soul: that unconciously, almost imperceptibly, the Left in uncritical embrace of any foe of America (bolding mine) had come to align itself with the most brutal, obscurantist, repressive theocrats on the planet."
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