No guilt by association here; I neither know nor care what Linda’s views are on the J*h*d issue. Rather, the point is that both her attack last year on opponents of the McCain amnesty bill and the latest example of administration’s submission to CAIR and MPAC are manifestations of the same phenomenon that all Western nations experience: a supine eagerness (even among some of those ostensibly fighting multiculturalism) to accommodate to the will-to-power of the Other. This “Oslo Syndrome” isn’t confined to Israel and isn’t even specific to encounters with Islam, though the challenge we face from uncontrolled Mexican immigration is obviously the decaf version of what our sister democracies face overseas.

Language does matter. But the alternative to the government’s former use of the derogatory “wetback” is not today’s euphemism of “undocumented immigrant.” The alternative to “infidel” is not “violent extremist.” Political correctness is alive and well on the Right, and it hobbles our ability to preserve and protect our civilization.