The War upon Us

Reflections five years later

and smelling them after they fell) and a small thing (the fact that I happened to be reading Winston Churchill’s Marlborough: His Life and Times, which, whatever its limitations as history or biography, accustoms you to long wars). The circumstances, as they became clearer over the months and years, bore the conviction out. Islamic fascism is a cult watered by frustration and cultivated by political actors, mostly Saudi and Iranian, with access to immense wealth. None of these factors will change easily.

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Richard Brookhiser

Historian Richard Brookhiser is a senior editor of National Review and a senior fellow at the National Review Institute.

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Reflections five years later

and smelling them after they fell) and a small thing (the fact that I happened to be reading Winston Churchill’s Marlborough: His Life and Times, which, whatever its limitations as history or biography, accustoms you to long wars). The circumstances, as they became clearer over the months and years, bore the conviction out. Islamic fascism is a cult watered by frustration and cultivated by political actors, mostly Saudi and Iranian, with access to immense wealth. None of these factors will change easily.