Abu Wabu

I glancingly linked to this Mark Steyn column earlier and point it out again in order to emphasize its importance as the most realistic assessment of the Islamofascist threat to date. It's as if the world is bowing down to Hitler all over again and won't take corrective action against the threat until another few million perish in the next holocaust.

What’s the difference between a hothead and a moderate? Well, the extremist Ahmadinejad has called for Israel to be “wiped off the map,” while the moderate Rafsanjani has declared that Israel is “the most hideous occurrence in history,” which the Muslim world “will vomit out from its midst” in one blast, because “a single atomic bomb has the power to completely destroy Israel, while an Israeli counter-strike can only cause partial damage to the Islamic world.” Evidently wiping Israel off the map seems to be one of those rare points of bipartisan consensus in Tehran, the Iranian equivalent of a prescription drug plan for seniors: we’re just arguing over the details.

So the question is: Will they do it?

And the minute you have to ask, you know the answer.

The difference this time, after all the dying, will by necessity be the prophylactic wiping of Mr. Rafsanjani's beloved "Islamic world" from the face of the planet, a consequence solely of its suicidal hatred of the modern world.