Three separate acts of terror today – the wanton execution of a dozen Nepalese workers in Iraq, the bombing of two Israeli buses, and the subway bombing in Moscow – bring into sharp focus the world that last night’s GOP speakers highlighted.

In particular, hearken to Guliani’s message about the global approach to terrorism from the 1970’s thru the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan and the way in which it fostered the apolocalyptic terror that visited his city on that fateful day. The legalistic, sensitive or soft power approach merely begets more terror. Iraq’s spate of kidnapping/executions has accelerated since the Spanish, Philippinos, and others bargained with and/or gave into the terrorists there.

On a side note, since the British government unwisely disbanded most of its Ghurka regiments in the past few years, many Ghurkas have shown up in Iraq to work for private security companies there. These most well trained and hardest of soldiers will not easily forget the gruesome murder of their fellow Nepalese today. Iraqi terrorists should beware the khukuris we can only hope come their way.