These are the stakes

A few weeks ago, at NRO, Jay Nordlinger recalled what people said after World War II: "Why didn't we just read Mein Kampf? Everything Hitler thought was spelled out."

Yes, exactly. And Nordlinger went on to ask, in essence: When will we begin to take seriously those who wish to obliterate us? When will we being to take these people at their word?

One day, historians will ponder the Canadian governmental and Western MSM response to the Islamofascist plot against the Canadien Prime Minister.

Ponder this construction. Seventeen Muslims arrested, around a dozen from the same mosque. And the reaction: the arrestees were from the "broad strata" of Canda. Rich and poor, unemployed andemployed, Muslim and . . . well, forget that last part.

Translation: Keep movin' folks, no jihad to see here.

I'm not being flippant when I quote Marlon Brando's Jor-El from the original movie of Superman: "It's suicide. No, it's worse: it's genocide."

One of the greatest achievements of the blogosphere is 1) introducing us to the best writers, unfiltered by local newspapers and the larger magazines, and 2) allowing us to see the entire body of work from our favorite writers, to read, say, George Will's splendid catalogue without having to wait four years for another book.

In Mark Steyn I have been doubly blessed: first, I discovered him; and second, I've read much of what he has written. He calls himself a "bore," in that he writes about the same things over and over (jihad, demographics, immigration, Euro-insanity), but Ronald Reagan repeated the same four arguments a million times, and now he's the fifth face on Mount Rushmore.

In any case, probably Steyn's best summing-up of what faces us is here.