70 Year Magazine Archive

Happy Warrior

by William F. Buckley Jr.

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Jihad, Jihad, Everywhere

We may have to change the name of this column to “Unhappy Warrior,” or “Reluctant Conscript,” or “Impending Deserter.” The last few weeks have made me consider not the possibility that we might lose this thing (which I’ve always weighed) but that we might lose it more easily than even the gloomiest of us thought. The “Cartoon Jihad” might have been explicitly devised as a scientific experiment to provoke the greatest degree of infidel capitulation for the most footling pretext.

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