5 Feet of Fury

Diana West slams politically correct war-waging

Interview with author Diana West:

I see in our conduct of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan the same “politically correct,” culturally relativistic accommodations, or submission, that the West is making to Islam elsewhere. What is so horrifying is that on these real-life battlefields, the PC mentality, the mentality that fails to acknowledge irreconcilable cultural differences between the West and Islam, exacts a price that is measured in the lives and limbs and well-being of our best young people, young men, mostly, not to mention unthinkably large sums of money.

To a striking degree, these wars have become a giant distraction, like a magician’s deft act of misdirection, from the true threat to our way of life: the ongoing spread of and entrenchment of sharia in the West.