After four Americans are murdered and embassies attacked, a loud campaign rally in Las Vegas seems an unfortunate place for the president to offer serious commentary on Tuesday’s violence

We Seem to Have Learned Nothing from 9/11

By Victor Davis Hanson

I thought we had learned long ago on 9/11 that radical Islam hates the West not because of troops in Saudi Arabia, or Danish cartoons or Mr. Rushdie, or even, as Dr. Zawahiri and bin Laden once wrote, global warming and an absence of campaign-finance reform—or, this week, a low-rent, do-it-yourself crackpot video—but out of a deep sense of its own inferiority in a globalized world, whose causes run throughout traditional Middle Eastern society (e.g., tribalism, gender apartheid, statism, anti-intellectualism, a lack of freedom and transparency, religious intolerance, anti-Semitism, fundamentalism, and on and on). 
These things cannot be freely analyzed and discussed—and ameliorated—without apparent loss of face. Hence, the pathetic scapegoating and blame-gaming.
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