Hanson Nails It

Victor Davis Hanson has a fine column up on the NRO on the bizarre mental disorder of the West which prevents it from understanding the threat of Islam and dealing with it appropriately. Here's the money quote:

The Islamists insist, "We kill you for being soft." Westerners in response feel, "We are killed because we are not being soft enough."

Notice that I didn't say the "threat of Islamic extremism" or the "threat of Islamofascism". I said and meant the threat of Islam. Let's stop pretending that we're not in a clash of civilizations.
It's a struggle that will end in one of two ways:

1. The virus of democracy successfully infects the Middle East and drastically softens its sociopathic hatred of everything non-Muslim.
2. Vast areas of the Middle East are irradiated and left lifeless after the United States responds to terrorist nuclear attacks on its homeland.

UPDATE: To clarify, I prefer the first option.