Our enemy prowls around us like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
If you’ve not read Wretchard’s commentary on Philip Bobbitt’s Spectator UK essay We haven’t absorbed the lessons I recommend it strongly.
…The saddest part of the Bobbitt’s article comes when he is forced to spell out to the reader what it is all about. When in history since Greece did the West need to be told this?
The attacks were, very simply, about democracy. They were an attempt to impose an answer on this question: will democratically elected governments be able to pursue their policies on the basis of the judgment of their institutions or can their leaders be tempted into ransoming their population when the public is hostage to violence? … This is a modern, perhaps even post-modern, version of an ancient dilemma. The lesson was written for us long ago: Be sober. Be watchful. Our enemy prowls around us like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
We were never ignorant of lions until today. Let the sunshine, let the sunshine, the sunshine in.
Bobbit is quite a writer.
His reference to the failure of jihadist plots UNLESS they have had the support of the al Qaeda network is interesting.
Pete