I Mean, Really

Jeffrey T. Kuhner in the Washington Times:

The battle over the ground-zero mosque is more than another battle in the heated culture wars. It is a watershed moment: the point at which liberal multiculturalism capitulated to the relentless march of political Islam. Muslim radicals around the world rightly will view it as a triumph over the feckless American infidel: Even the site of their deadliest attack against America is not free from Islam's looming presence. This event signifies the loss - the defeat - of American will and purpose in the struggle against jihad.

No, Mr. Kuhner, we will have surrendered to the jihadists when we become like them: when we have no more regard for freedom than they do, when we regard the peaceful actions of our neighbors as some sort of dire threat to ourselves, when we see all of life as battle between us and our enemies, in which everything we do is judged only a part of this great, largely imaginary struggle.