THE ATLANTICIST: A resurgent fundamentalist Islam is engaged in a global war against the West and the rest of the infidel world. In World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism former Commentary editor in chief Norman Podhoretz calls it WW4.
Republican presidential frontrunner John McCain believes “the transcendent challenge of the 21st century is radical Islamic extremists.” Mitt Romney said the “philosophy of radical jihadism says, ‘We want to kill.’” In stark contrast, Democrats, George Bush and many European leaders talk about combating terrorism – a means, disembodied from any animating ideology or purpose. It is as if in WW2 Roosevelt and Churchill had called for waging war against Panzer tanks. UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith in a positively Orwellian construction now refers to Islamic terrorism as “anti-Islamic activity.”
21st century Europeans and Americans no longer understand men motivated by and willing, indeed eager, to kill and die for their faith. World War IV: Europe on the front line >>> By Eric Grover*
*Eric Grover is a principal at Intrepid Ventures, providing corporate development and strategy consulting to private and public financial services, processing, technology and payment network businesses, principally in North America and Europe.
Grover’s prior experience includes GE Consumer Finance, Visa International, Bank of America, NationsBank, Transamerica and Intrinsic. His commentaries on financial services, payment networks and processing have been frequently published in the American Banker, Cards International, the Daily Deal, Digital Transactions, Credit Card Management, Cards & Payments, Card Technology, CRM Magazine, and Silicon Valley Business Ink.
Grover has a BA in economics from Amherst College and an MBA in Finance from New York University’s Stern Graduate School of Business.
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