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The United States and Israel and every sentient being in the path of the Islamist crusade are teetering on the brink of a massive defeat in Lebanon and thus in the war on terror. The incident in Qana -- inevitable when a terrorist army uses its own citizens as human shields -- may provide the occasion for the surrender, but even if it doesn't a surrender is being prepared by the now predictable responses of the West to attacks from this fanatic, calculating and cynical an enemy. Qana, be it noted was the source of 150 missile attacks on Israeli civilians, and the population of Qana was warned to leave but chose to stay alongside the terrorists. Like most of Lebanon, the population of Qana is on the side of the aggressors, and apparently like most Muslims in this part of the world, death for them is a badge of martyrdom and honor, and a noble pathway to heaven. They are willing instruments of the Islamist jihad.

Lest it be forgotten, this is a war that began more than thirty years ago with the triumph of the Ayatollahs in Iran in 1979. That revolution established the first radical Islamic state, its war cry "Death to America" and its goal the establishment of a global Islamic empire. Nearly thirty years later, Iran is on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons and its imperial war is being waged on Iran's Lebanese frontier by its Hezbollah proxy. One month into the fighting which began with the attacks on Israel, the scenario for the West's defeat in this phase of the war is quite obvious and quite simple.

The appeasers of Islamo-fascism who have been calling for a cease fire and bewailing "civilian casualties" in Lebanon and Gaza will succeed. Hezbollah will agree to turn over its arms to the pro-Hezbollah Lebanese army. The pro-Hezbollah UN will establish a security zone on Lebanon's southern border to keep the area clear of non-government militias (of which Hezbollah is the only one). The credulous in the Western camp will greet this as a victory for the peacemakers. But exactly the opposite will be the case.

According to a recent poll in Lebanon eighty percent of the Lebanese Arabs support Hezbollah. In other words, just as Hamas (created by the same Muslim Brotherhood as spawned al-Qaeda) is now the Palestinian government, so Hezbollah will emerge as the government of Lebanon. The Lebanese army will become the new Hezbollah "militia," with 75,000 soldiers added to its terrorist ranks. Only this won't be a militia. It will be the terrorist army of a sovereign power enjoying the right to openly negotiate its arms deals with Syria and Iran. The next battle with Iran, in other words, will be World War III.

In fact, the next battleground in the spread of Shi'ia fascism is already in progress and aflame. It is Iraq, where Iran's Shi'ia armies are already in the field under the command of the sheik of Sadr City, the America-hating cleric Moqtadar al-Sadr. Al-Sadr, it should be noted, is alive and in the field because the appeasers in this country, beginning with the Democratic Party but extending into the Bush State Department, stymied the first battle of Fallujah when al-Sadr was trapped and could have been killed and his militia destroyed. The Bush Administration had to delay the attack until after Kerry's defeat in the November 2004 elections in order to avoid the political complications that would have attended the battle in the midst of an election campaign. This allowed al-Sadr to escape the trap, enter the Iraqi parliament, mobilize his forces and lead the Shi'ia camp in Iraq's civil war.

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