If Bali can’t make itself inoffensive to Militant Islamism what is the chance that Americans can — no matter which policies we change or how much our public diplomacy improves?

And it’s not just Bali that’s under attack by the Islamofascist terrorists. It’s also Thailand and Bangladesh and other places, though the MSM — and the UN and the big human rights organizations – are hardly bothering to notice. Maybe that’s because it clashes with their prevailing narrative blaming Bush and the war in Iraq for terrorism?

A column I wrote for Scripps Howard on this theme is here.