Radical Islam’s War against the West
Islamists can do untold harm, even if they can’t win.
March 12, 2018
Radical Islam’s War against the West
Islamists can do untold harm, even if they can’t win.
The war between Islamism and the Western world (most often understood as the U.S. and Israel) has been going on since 1979, even if America only began fighting back in earnest in 2001. In an in-depth analysis, Max Singer evaluates the real threats posed by militant Islam but also the limits of its capabilities. He concludes that the movement in its various forms can cause untold harm to the West—especially if Islamist groups or countries obtain nuclear and biological weapons—but by its own standards can never win:
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